3,000 kg of aircraft engine parts stolen from IGI airport

[regular]

Shame on Indian Govt. the thieves are active there too....

 

[rcrmj]

Probably bcoz your business card reads rcrmj, scrap metal dealer

i was in that business for one year``and most of scrap yards are in India,``` I was always wondering, how'd hell they got so many scraps where their metal consumption is less than a tiny country like S.Korea````now i probably know why``

 

[IndoCarib]

i was in that business for one year``and most of scrap yards are in India,``` I was always wondering, how'd hell they got so many scraps where their metal consumption is less than a tiny country like S.Korea````now i probably know why``

Perhaps you didn't know that per capita steel consumption of a 'tiny country like S.Korea' is much more than a 'huge country like China' . So the joke is on you !

 

[Vassnti]

yes...scrap metal....whats the big deal?

Because acording to the OP its not scrap metal its used engine parts. There is a huge difference, there are people that reprocess used aircraft parts and sell them as new do you really want the jumbo you take your next trip in to have scrap parts in the engine?

Its not the case of a few dollars worth of scrap it the potential for engine failure mid flight.

 

[Radius]

....Seems like an inside job...
Someone wanted to get rich quickly.....

 

[kak1978]

Imagine if 3000 Kgs of material can be shifted out in the presence of several thousand guards, the incident at Mehran must be like a walk in the park.....not that it's excusable in any way, but at the end of the day, it's the human factor that comes into equation.

There is a hell lot of difference between, stealing something from a civilian airport, which very well could have been done with insiders knowledge, 3000kgs of metal!! and sneaking into an airbase with weapons.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

probably some disaffected workers who wanted to make a quick profit by stealing....

its not an act that can be forgiven

i'm surprised they could get away, either some security guys were paid to turn a blind eye or otherwise they are way over-worked and failed to notice the activity

civilian vehicles are probably not allowed in those areas, meaning they probably used flatbeds and heavy vehicles that are property of their aviation/airports authority

 

[Avatar]

Theft of public property is reaching new heights in India. I'm sure some "inside people" must have been involved, which is why it took so long to report the theft. Air India should be dissolved or privatized because it has never been anything more than a liability. I'm sure no other airline would keep quiet after something like this.

 

[Avatar]

As I said elsewhere, when some are willing to play with dear life, then it's impossible to stop the likes of 9/11 and other similar incidents, more recently again demonstrated by rag tag Talibans by breaching several high security zones in Afghanistan, more over the likes of Tamil Tigers have proven that once you breach a big complex facility like an airbase, damage becomes almost inevitable. While all the trouble is brewing in North, the PN did let it's guard down in South, however, now it's established that without inside help, such an operation was almost impossible.

You fail to make sense once again. The engine part theft cannot be compared with terrorist incidents where violence and security is involved in much greater levels. Theft is a secret process that nobody knows about for months, there is no response and the guards are avoided or simply bribed to keep quiet. The security personnel are guarding busy zones and there's very little security where the aircraft are stationed for things like maintenance or inside jobs such as this. If terrorists manage to get in a place like this and start getting violent, I'm sure there will be quick response teams in the nearby vicinity.