<p>Thefts from baggages loaded in aircraft are not uncommon and now there is video evidence of the practice.<br /><br />Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday shared two videos - one of 45 seconds and another 1minute minute 33 seconds - on Twitter to show that some unscrupulous baggage handlers are indulging in theft while loading them.<br /><br />Uploading the videos that showed a handler unzipping some baggages, Singh tweeted, "our luggage in the flights safe or not?" This video has gone viral. <br /><br />Singh has not said from where he got the video and whether he had checked its authenticity and other details or not.<br /><br />The videos show a baggage handler trying to open one and then leaving it. He was then seen opening another bag, checking the contents and trying to steal some articles.<br /><br />The date on which the video was shot is not known. Similarly, it is also not clear in which airport this incident took place.<br /><br />There have been a series of complaints from passengers about missing items from their check-in baggages.<br /><br />Frisking of ground handling staff while leaving airport, prohibition of use of mobile phones in the airside by ground-handling staff and deployment of airline security staff in the baggage make-up area are among the measures taken to ensure that bag thefts do not happen. CCTV surveillance is also helping them crack many bag theft cases, officials said.<br /><br />The Ministry of Civil Aviation had admitted in Parliament that there have been such incidents reported from various airports. <br /><br /></p>
<p>Thefts from baggages loaded in aircraft are not uncommon and now there is video evidence of the practice.<br /><br />Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday shared two videos - one of 45 seconds and another 1minute minute 33 seconds - on Twitter to show that some unscrupulous baggage handlers are indulging in theft while loading them.<br /><br />Uploading the videos that showed a handler unzipping some baggages, Singh tweeted, "our luggage in the flights safe or not?" This video has gone viral. <br /><br />Singh has not said from where he got the video and whether he had checked its authenticity and other details or not.<br /><br />The videos show a baggage handler trying to open one and then leaving it. He was then seen opening another bag, checking the contents and trying to steal some articles.<br /><br />The date on which the video was shot is not known. Similarly, it is also not clear in which airport this incident took place.<br /><br />There have been a series of complaints from passengers about missing items from their check-in baggages.<br /><br />Frisking of ground handling staff while leaving airport, prohibition of use of mobile phones in the airside by ground-handling staff and deployment of airline security staff in the baggage make-up area are among the measures taken to ensure that bag thefts do not happen. CCTV surveillance is also helping them crack many bag theft cases, officials said.<br /><br />The Ministry of Civil Aviation had admitted in Parliament that there have been such incidents reported from various airports. <br /><br /></p>
