Rajkot: A Right to Information (RTI) reply has confirmed a major security breach at the Rajkot airport by the airport director who went on a joyride in an aircraft of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) by giving all security rules a go-by in 2013.
R R Gupta, then Rajkot airport director, had boarded the cockpit of aircraft VT-FIU King Air that had come from Vadodara for calibration of landing systems on July 9, 2013 and allegedly ordered the pilot to fly to coastal areas around Porbandar.
The aircraft went out of the air traffic control (ATC) radar for around 15 minutes triggering panic among the security agencies.
"Gupta boarded AAI flight in aircraft cockpit. He is from civil engineering background and he was not permitted in writing by any competent authority to board the cockpit. During the operation of such a flight, no security personnel were present and informed," AAI said in the RTI reply to an application by a Jam Khambhaliya resident, Anwar Umar Zakhia.
Describing his act as "ridiculous" and "irresponsible", AAI has also noted that Gupta boarded the flight for personal gain without even security check thereby violating Aircraft Act 1934 (22 of 1934). He also did not inform the Central Industrial Security Force for security clearance.
05/02/15 Vijaysinh Parmar/Times of India
R R Gupta, then Rajkot airport director, had boarded the cockpit of aircraft VT-FIU King Air that had come from Vadodara for calibration of landing systems on July 9, 2013 and allegedly ordered the pilot to fly to coastal areas around Porbandar.
The aircraft went out of the air traffic control (ATC) radar for around 15 minutes triggering panic among the security agencies.
"Gupta boarded AAI flight in aircraft cockpit. He is from civil engineering background and he was not permitted in writing by any competent authority to board the cockpit. During the operation of such a flight, no security personnel were present and informed," AAI said in the RTI reply to an application by a Jam Khambhaliya resident, Anwar Umar Zakhia.
Describing his act as "ridiculous" and "irresponsible", AAI has also noted that Gupta boarded the flight for personal gain without even security check thereby violating Aircraft Act 1934 (22 of 1934). He also did not inform the Central Industrial Security Force for security clearance.
05/02/15 Vijaysinh Parmar/Times of India
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