Stowaway flies Malaysian Airlines

Stowaway flies Malaysian Airlines

KUALA LUMPUR: A 24-year-old Malaysian successfully sneaked
into a Malaysia Airlines aircraft and flew to Indonesia's resort
island Bali without a ticket and travel document, a report said
on Saturday.

The Star newspaper said the man managed to evade security
guards and dozens of closed-circuit monitoring cameras at the
Kuala Lumpur International Airport, located some 55 kilometers
(34 miles) south of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

But he was arrested by alert Indonesian security officials at
Denpasar Airport and immediately deported to Malaysia. The
newspaper did not state when the incident happened.

Zahedi Ayob, Sepang district police chief, whose jurisdiction
includes the airport, confirmed that a man was being detained for
traveling to Bali without a travel document. He declined to
elaborate.

The Star said that the man, who does not have a criminal
record, had previously worked at airport for a private cleaning
company.

"We are baffled as to how he managed to gain access after
having his job terminated, an airport security official said.

"We are also checking whether others had helped him as a
person would need some time to study the security procedures at
the airport before pulling off such a stunt," he said, adding
that this was the first time such an incident had happened since
the airport began operation in 1997. AFP