Poisonous snake found in handbag of flyer in Kochi
Saurabh.Sinha@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:12.11.2018
Snake on a plane could have become a frightening reality on an international flight out of India had an alert security personnel not spotted the poisonous reptile while screening the handbag of a passenger. This startling find was made by a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) screener at Kochi airport on Sunday while running the XRay on the bag of an Abu Dhabi-bound passenger who was then handed over to the police.
“Sub inspector P K Mourya was watching over the screen where contents of hand bags being x-rayed was being shown. At about 4 pm he detected some suspicious item which seemed like a snake in the hand baggage of a passenger flying to Abu Dhabi on Air India express flight 419,” said a senior CISF official.
Mourya asked for physical check of the bag. “Constable Hirdesh Kumar carefully checked the bag and found a live young one of a snake inside the bag which looked like Indian Krait / Blue Krait, which is among the four most venomous snakes found in India. Snakes, reptiles and wildlife are prohibited in flight and carriage of such reptiles is also dangerous for civil aviation security with even the young ones being venomous, the passenger was not allowed to proceed for his 4.55 pm flight and handed over to local police,” said the official. The passenger is a 40-year-old resident of Kattakalam in Palakkad of Kerala.
Sunday proved to be an eventful day for CISF as it made a few other finds too, however not as startling as the venomous snake.
A Dubai-bound passenger at Bangalore airport was found to be carrying 29 antique idols in his bag. “A passenger flying to Dubai was identified for random check based on profiling. Physical check of this Bangalore-resident’s hand bag led to discovery of 29 antiques. He neither had the bill for them, nor could he say why he was taking so many antiques out of India. Customs officials detained the passenger and the antiques,” said the officer.
MISHAP AVERTED: The snake was found in a passenger’s handbag at Kochi airport
Saurabh.Sinha@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:12.11.2018
Snake on a plane could have become a frightening reality on an international flight out of India had an alert security personnel not spotted the poisonous reptile while screening the handbag of a passenger. This startling find was made by a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) screener at Kochi airport on Sunday while running the XRay on the bag of an Abu Dhabi-bound passenger who was then handed over to the police.
“Sub inspector P K Mourya was watching over the screen where contents of hand bags being x-rayed was being shown. At about 4 pm he detected some suspicious item which seemed like a snake in the hand baggage of a passenger flying to Abu Dhabi on Air India express flight 419,” said a senior CISF official.
Mourya asked for physical check of the bag. “Constable Hirdesh Kumar carefully checked the bag and found a live young one of a snake inside the bag which looked like Indian Krait / Blue Krait, which is among the four most venomous snakes found in India. Snakes, reptiles and wildlife are prohibited in flight and carriage of such reptiles is also dangerous for civil aviation security with even the young ones being venomous, the passenger was not allowed to proceed for his 4.55 pm flight and handed over to local police,” said the official. The passenger is a 40-year-old resident of Kattakalam in Palakkad of Kerala.
Sunday proved to be an eventful day for CISF as it made a few other finds too, however not as startling as the venomous snake.
A Dubai-bound passenger at Bangalore airport was found to be carrying 29 antique idols in his bag. “A passenger flying to Dubai was identified for random check based on profiling. Physical check of this Bangalore-resident’s hand bag led to discovery of 29 antiques. He neither had the bill for them, nor could he say why he was taking so many antiques out of India. Customs officials detained the passenger and the antiques,” said the officer.
MISHAP AVERTED: The snake was found in a passenger’s handbag at Kochi airport
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