This is last year’s news, but it’s definitely still worth talking (or ranting) about.
“A mentally-challenged man identified as Marcelo Maligalig, 41, managed to breach the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 perimeter fence and get near a parked Kuwait Airlines aircraft at around 9:45pm on Monday, Dec 30,” reports Eric Apolonio on InterAksyon.com.
In other words, Maligalig managed to get to “a highly sensitive area” without getting caught by security personnel. He only got nabbed when security guards saw him trying to “climb up the plane using the front landing gear of the aircraft.”
NAIA Airport Police Operations Division head Capt. Tim Cruz later revealed that Maligalig had been “repeatedly taken in as a patient at National Center for Mental Health (NCMH) in Mandaluyong City.” Maligalig was later turned over to his sister, policewoman Christine Maligalig of Southern Police District.
The report had also pointed out that “a source at the airport said that Terminal 1 has no CCTV around the perimeter fence that Maligalig had scaled.”
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