A 19-year-old Saudi national was arrested for breaching security at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 by posing as an airline pilot, airport officials said Tuesday.
Angel Atutubo, assistant general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority, said Hani Bokhary was arrested around 5 p.m. Monday while loitering around the Terminal 1 wearing a pilot's uniform.
Atutubo said aviation policemen failed to immediately discover Bokhary's unauthorized stay at the airport because they assumed that he was a regular airline pilot.
He said Bokhary's disguise was discovered after a lady immigration officer examined his passport, which revealed that he was a dependent and son of a pilot.
Bokhary was immediately brought to the Bureau of Immigration's detention facility at Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig.
Atutubo said a charge of "misrepresentation" was being readied against the Saudi national.
He said the immigration department has ordered the immediate deportation of the suspect.
Atutubo, meanwhile, clarified that there was no breach in security at the airport regarding the Saudi national's case.
"We would not consider it a breach. He went through X-ray and walk through inspections. There was simply a human error because [our security people] failed to immediately scrutinize [his identity] because he was wearing a pilot's uniform," he said.
The NAIA airport was went on alert after the botched bomb attack of a young Nigerian national while aboard a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
The Nigerian national was badly burned when a device failed to detonate the explosives allegedly stitched into his underwear. With reports from Edwin Sebidal, radio dzMM and Alex Santos, ABS-CBN News
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