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Shanghai Airport Authority fined 80,000 yuan by regulator for teen stowaway case
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CHINA’S civil aviation regulator has fined the Shanghai Airport Authority 80,000 yuan (US$11,963) after closing an investigation on an incident, in which a Chinese teenager stowed away on a flight to Dubai from the Pudong airport in May, the regulator said today.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China fined the airport authority 30,000 yuan, because the operator of the city’s two airports failed to maintain the fences, eliminate safety risks and stop the invasion to the airport’s restricted area on time, the administration announced.
It was further fined another 50,000 yuan for failing to take effective protection to the aircraft berthing at the airport, the regulator added.
“The airport authority is found to have violated the civil aviation safety regulation after an investigation on the incident,” the East China Administration of the administration announced.
The 16-year-old stowaway Xu Xiaojun from southwest China’s Sichuan Province, sneaked into the cargo hold of Emirates flight EK303 on May 26 in an attempt to make a fortune by begging in Dubai. He was arrested by airport police right after the flight landed over nine hours later. Xu was repatriated to China since he was a minor.
The administration has banned the Pudong International Airport from applying for new, extra or charter flights for the safety evaluation and investigation on the incident in July.
The Shanghai Airport Authority paid highly attention to the decisions made by the administration and has launched an overall inspection on the airports’ restricted areas and anti-invasion capability, the Shanghai-listed company has said in a statement to Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The company is having a self-check to find safety risks and is improving the facilities and management institutions to ensure the flying safety, it added.
The Emirates also announced it had submitted a safety improvement plan to the administration and promised no similar incident would happen again.
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