Poor communication between airlines and airport staff cost Commonwealth Games gold medallist and international shooter Omkar Singh his flight booking when he was asked to deboard his flight to Coimbatore from Mumbai for carrying an air pistol. Singh was travelling on Air India flights from Delhi to Coimbatore via Mumbai. According to the shooter, he had checked in his air pistol at the Delhi airport and had reached Mumbai as per schedule. When on board for the connecting Air India flight to Coimbatore, he was asked to leave the flight by the Air India staff. “I told the officer incharge in Mumbai that I had declared my air gun at the Delhi airport. I also told that the DGCA allows shooters to carry air guns with them but they didn’t budge,” Singh said.
