Of all the planes in the world

[Seth K 3]

If sneaking in knife onboard doesn't require brain work at KUL, MAHB seriously need to do sumthing about this.....so much for the extra screening before exiting MTB

[KK Lee 5]

 

Investigation may be, fault unlikely to be found but good reason for MAHB to increase security surcharge.

 

 

[Robert 0]

Several times I've left aerosol cans and nail clippers in bag my by accident and NEVER been stopped on the KUL-SIN route. The other way round I've never made the mistake so I don’t know if they are any better.

[Maarof Kassim 0]

It's Globespan.

Sorry, wrong again. Yeah Globespan. Actually I caught it on 8th February 2008. Please see my post #177 on KUL RWY 32L, Winter '08. Also Jonathan's post #20 on this thread. Happy Birthday, Jon!

 

[kandiah k 0]

Oh My !!!! What a shameful thing to happen at the worlds best airport ? Or should we say the world's least safe airport ?

 

Why and how can this ever happen ? What are the authorities doing about such things ? They want to "Saman" people who park their car at the wrong places, but what are they doing when it comes to safety issues such as these ? Let's not froget the Osama issue on a SQ flight and now this ? Wonder why our airport wins these accolades when we have incompetent staff working at the main entry point of the country ?

 

Maybe when the ROUTES 2008 takes place, the delegates of prospective airlines and even the current ones may think twice, perhaps because our airport has issues as far as safety is concerned. Good job MAHB and also the Security Officers.

 

Are the security staff actually doing their job ? Or checking out the tourists ?

 

[Mohd Azizul Ramli 2]

Copied from another thread. 6 days later, the award proved 'takde makne'.

 

The Star, 2 April 2008

 

KLIA gets world awards

By CHOW HOW BAN

 

SHANGHAI: KL International Airport (KLIA) has bagged the World’s Best Airport in the 15 million to 25 million passengers per annum category of the Airport Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality Awards for the third consecutive year.

 

KLIA also jumped from third place in 2006 to second place in the overall Best Airport category in 2007. In the 2007 edition of ASQ Awards, South Korea’s Incheon International Airport placed first in the overall Best Airport category, and Singapore’s Changi Airport, third.

 

Other awards were presented to top performing airports worldwide in 16 categories at a gala dinner here on Monday night in conjunction with the two-day ACI conference on customer service and facilitation. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd managing director Datuk Seri Bashir Ahmad said that the awards won by KLIA belonged to all agencies and working partners, including the Customs, retailers and operation ground officers.

 

“Incheon International Airport has been placed first for the last three years. Below Incheon, we have two to three airports competing very hard for the next position,” he told Malaysian media here before the award presentation. Next year, we will not contest in the 15 million to 25 million passengers per annum category. We will go into the big league and concentrate on the overall category to see whether we can maintain, if not improve on, our position.”

 

Flight passengers at 90 airports were surveyed at departure gates last year on their feedback on customers’ service satisfaction level. The survey showed that KLIA scored well in terms of passenger security, courtesy of staff, efficiency of customs and immigration clearance, ambience, and cleanliness.

 

Malaysia will host the ACI conference next year. KLIA is also preparing to hold the World Route Development Forum this October.

[Naim 6]

Emergency as man produces knife on board Scottish plane

 

BRIAN DONNELLY

April 09 2008

 

An investigation was under way last night after a Scottish aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing when a man brandished a knife on board.

 

Reports suggested the man threatened to harm other passengers on the plane, which was leased to a Bangladeshi airline but crewed mainly by staff from the Edinburgh-based low-cost company Flyglobespan.

 

A spokesman for the airline which also operates from Glasgow and Aberdeen raised concerns over airport security after the man was seen with what police described as a four inch knife during the flight.

 

The Flyglobespan spokes-man insisted there was no violence during the flight but because the man continued to act "disorientated and confused" after being approached the decision was taken to divert and land.

 

Images taken on the plane showed a man being wrestled by uniformed staff.

 

Flyglobespan said it was not flight staff but possibly ground security staff crew who tackled him.

 

There were no injuries aboard the GMG Airlines flight, which was carrying about 70 passengers from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, and which made an emergency landing in Bangkok, said Watcharapol Prasanrachakij of the Thai Police.

 

The Thai authorities boarded the plane at Bangkok's Don Muang airport and removed the passenger, who was later identified as a Bangladeshi citizen.

 

The plane continued to its destination after a delay of several hours in Bangkok. Thai police said the man was due to remain in custody until the next available GMG flight to Bangladesh, when he would be turned over to airline security personnel aboard the plane.

 

Police later also described the man as mentally unstable.

 

A spokesman for Flyglobespan said last night: "The staff said in the report that they saw this guy peeling an apple with a knife, so spoke to him but he would not engage with them.

 

"He was disorientated and confused.

 

"At that time they decided that because he wouldn't engage with them he was a potential threat and they reported that to the captain who decided to take the action he did.

 

"There wasn't any great threat to the crew. The guy wasn't responding to what the crew were saying and so they diverted into Bangkok airport and he was taken off the plane.

 

"It was a Flyglobespan aircraft which has been on lease to the company out there to GMG Airlines since December.

 

"The flight deck - the captain and the first officer - are Flyglobespan personnel and the senior cabin crew member was Flyglobespan personnel with the remainder of the cabin crew being local. The majority of the crew were local."

 

The plane was a Boeing 737 800, which Flyglobespan said can hold around 170 passengers. Initial reports claimed a fight had broken out on board the flight.

 

The spokesman went on: "Clearly the departing airport will need to look at its security.

 

"No matter how small the knife was he shouldn't have got it on board."

 

He added that the crew members were "resting" last night and unavailable for comment. "The ops report had nothing about the guy being violent or having to be restrained. But that is only up until the point the plane landed.

 

"Once the plane lands it becomes the responsibility of the airline (rather than aircraft cabin crew) and it may well be this picture taken is of one of the airline or (airport) security people."

 

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/displ...ttish_plane.php

 

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Malaysia probes plane fruit knife panic

 

2 hours ago

 

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian authorities said Wednesday they were investigating how a man boarded a plane with a knife that he pulled out mid-flight, causing panic among passengers.

 

The pilot of the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Dhaka made an emergency landing Tuesday morning in Bangkok, though officials disagreed over whether the man had brandished the knife in a threatening manner or just wanted to peel an apple.

 

"Malaysia Airports is currently conducting a thorough investigation into this incident," said head of security Kamaruddin Mohamad Ismail.

 

"The security officer on duty has been suspended pending further investigation," he said in a statement.

 

Malaysia Airports manages the sprawling Kuala Lumpur International Airport complex in the outskirts of the city.

 

Sharp objects, including knives, nail files and scissors are not allowed into planes, and passengers checking-in through the airport are routinely checked by security officers, using a metal detector.

 

Hand-held bags are also scanned by officers.

 

Officials said that Tuesday's incident was not a hijacking or a terror act and that the passenger, a Bangladeshi national, had only taken out the knife to cut an apple.

 

However a Thai official said earlier that the pilot of the GMG flight acted after the man had been unruly and had frightened other passengers.

 

The Bangladeshi plane, with about 60 people on board, made an emergency landing at Bangkok's domestic Don Mueang airport and was grounded for about two hours before resuming its journey to Dhaka.

 

The man was later released to board a flight to Dhaka Tuesday evening, Malaysia Airports said.

 

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h9r-Xm...Py_yc8Soxnn2RPw

[Radzi 2]

Knife is passe. Now is the season for water. MAB security must be busy making sure no mineral water or liquid get aboard; knife is oh-so-yesterday. And anyway they are too busy in checking crew ID and chasing spotters anyway. Plus they're understaffed; have to attend the award-giving ceremony what.

[Kader 0]

actually its quite easy to 'seludup' smuggle things into the Gate. Normally the body search can be beat, in order to seludup a small knife or scissors.

but if hi jackers have knive, pilot have AXe unless they took hostage *kidding*

 

bla bla bla...what i'm trying to say is any where in the world, the body search can be beat, that's why the use of baton metal detector is more efficient. not the 'Pintu gerbang metal detector'

 

C.Radzi.. mebe if we buy a piece of land, near the "spotting place" and make it a spotting area with security from MAHB and get money back by making that place as a tourist spot...open a few stalls and collect rent from them.. spotting, free.. (legalize spotting) idea from late LGT of genting

[Naim 6]

Daily Star

Dhaka

10/4/08

 

GMG now says trouble-maker not mentally ill

Rashidul Hasan

 

GMG Airlines officials yesterday said Harun-ar-Rashid, for whom one of its flights had to make an emergency landing at a Thai airport Tuesday, is not mentally disturbed. GMG on Tuesday claimed he was mentally disturbed citing a doctor's opinion.

 

They now say he was just sad after losing his job in Malaysia and he did not know that carrying a knife on board a plane was illegal.

 

Flight Z5-042 heading for Dhaka from Kuala Lumpur made an emergency landing at Don Muang Airport in Bangkok Tuesday after Harun was seen cutting an apple with a knife.

 

After a three-hour drama at the airport, the flight finally made it to Zia International Airport around 2:30pm Tuesday.

 

GMG officials at Zia International Airport said Harun detained by Thai security Tuesday morning returned to Dhaka Tuesday night and has reached his village home in Jhenidah.

 

"Harun actually suffers from tuberculosis [TB] and he was sad as he lost his job and everything in Malaysia," an official told The Daily Star quoting Harun who showed his medical certificate to GMG officials at the airport.

 

"We gave him money to go home as he did not have any," a GMG high official requesting anonymity told The Daily Star last night.

 

"Harun had no job for the last three months. Therefore, he was sad but he was not mentally disturbed," said another GMG official.

 

About cutting an apple with a knife on Tuesday's flight, one GMG official quoting Harun said he did not know that carrying a knife was not allowed on flights.

 

"He remained silent through the journey as he did not feel good due to his disease," the official added.

 

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=31737

[BC Tam 2]

Well, if it was as reported in the news and the chap was manhandled somewhat, I do hope the said handlers are now to be tested for TB