A Jet Airways passenger jumped out of a plane’s emergency exit then walked out of the airport without being stopped.
The man, named locally as Akash Jain, allegedly jumped onto the tarmac at Mumbai Airport five minutes after it landed from Chandigarh.
It is alleged that he opened an emergency exit above a wing of the plane and jumped to the tarmac.
Once on the ground, he spoke to a member of staff working on another flight, but rather than questioning what he was doing, they directed him towards the terminal and it was more than half an hour before authorities were told.
From there he simply walked out of the airport, according to Mid-Day.
A spokesman for the airport said: ‘If the incident took place after the aircraft landed, why didn’t the airline security staff inform the security agencies immediately? Why did they need 35 minutes to do so?’
A Jet Airways spokesman said: ‘A guest travelling on Jet Airways flight 9W 469 from Chandigarh to Mumbai opened the emergency door and disembarked alighting onto the aircraft’s wings after the aircraft had come to a standstill at the parking bay at Mumbai airport.
‘Security agencies were immediately alerted and are carrying out further investigations.’
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