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November 30, 2003 The Hindu, India
Malaysia Beefs Up Airport Security Kuala Lumpur, Nov.30. (PTI): Malaysian authorities today decided to beef up airline security by introducing closed-circuit television cameras around parked aircraft and conducting strict pre-flight checks after a snapped cable was discovered in a Mumbai-bound plane hours before it was to leave with 280 passengers on board. "Each and every plane has to be checked thoroughly. So (there's) no way a plane with some technical fault will be allowed to take off", Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy was quoted as saying by the state news agency. All planes at the airport would come under camera surveillance, he told Bernama. The broken cable was discovered in the Boeing 777 Wednesday by aircraft maintenance staff and investigation was on whether vandals were behind the incident, police said. In another breach of security, a 24-year-old Malaysian man with no ticket and passport reportedly managed to sneak into a Malaysian Airlines flight to Bali. The incidents come just weeks after a breach on another Malaysia Airlines passenger plane bound for Perth, Australia. Three of the airline's staff were arrested and later released over that incident said to be an act of vandalism, not sabotage.
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