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Continental Airlines apologizes for frisking ex Indian president

New Delhi, India - New Delhi's government has charged the airline

Embarrassment for American Continental Airlines that has been forced today to express its official apologies to India after his staff in New Delhi had frisked the ex-president of the Asian country, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, asking him to remove his shoes and to pass through a metal detector. "It is outrageous", civil aviation minister Praful Patel stated in the parliament, adding that all airlines have...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1107489
Rome, Italy, 07/22/2009 18:42
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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