PIA crew held at JFK airport for smuggling phones, cigarettes

February 02, 2012 16:52

The cabin crew of a Pakistan International Airlines flight was detained for several hours at John F Kennedy Airport in New York for allegedly smuggling hundreds of cartons of cigarettes and dozens of mobile phone sets, officials said today.

Authorities at the US airport held eight members of the crew of PIA flight PK-721 yesterday after over 500 cigarette cartons and a large number of mobile sets, mostly BlackBerrys and iPhones, were found in their baggage. The items were in excess of the permissible limits, officials said.

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