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The two Bristol plane-spotters who were arrested in a hotel room in Delhi overlooking Indira Gandhi International Airport with an air traffic control scanner, binoculars and cameras were lucky to escape with just a fine.
Charged with with intercepting communications, the pair admitted illegally monitoring aircraft and were fined just £365 each and are now free to return home.
Plane-spotting can be a dangerous hobby in some parts of the world - witness the group that were arrested in Greece some time ago - and the pair were lucky that the authorities recognised that they posed no threat to security but were enthusiastic hobbyists.
I’ve never seen the inside of an Indian jail and hope not to. So plane-spotting is certainly off my list of things to do in the future!
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The two Bristol plane-spotters who were arrested in a hotel room in Delhi overlooking Indira Gandhi International Airport with an air traffic control scanner, binoculars and cameras were lucky to escape with just a fine.
Charged with with intercepting communications, the pair admitted illegally monitoring aircraft and were fined just £365 each and are now free to return home.
Plane-spotting can be a dangerous hobby in some parts of the world - witness the group that were arrested in Greece some time ago - and the pair were lucky that the authorities recognised that they posed no threat to security but were enthusiastic hobbyists.
I’ve never seen the inside of an Indian jail and hope not to. So plane-spotting is certainly off my list of things to do in the future!
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