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Originally Posted by OskiBear
(Post 30106499)
I've heard about this, but have always been generally paranoid so typically lock my rollaboard when it goes up into the overhead. There's usually nothing in it that I'd need during the flight.
I have a small shoulder bag with iPad, phone, passport, credit cards, etc. Usually the wallet/passport are in my pocket during the flight. There are a few hundred people on the plane, I'd rather not be the easier victim/target. |
Comment from former FA from one of closed FB groups: When I was flying as a crew, this happened predominantly on our CGK/ICN/CGK (Jakarta /Incheon) routes. There is a syndicate (will not mention nationality) operating on this routes. The M.O. would be there will be someone assigned on each zone including first and business class and they start their work when the lights are out. We would find 5 empty wallets in different lavatories. Of course it will be very difficult to find out who the culprits are. We check the manifest and we profile these passengers (as much as we would like to avoid it. It has to be done). We also keep vigilance during these period of the flight knowing that they can strike anytime. I strongly advocate that you keep your valuables under your seats regardless how uncomfortable it can get. |
Originally Posted by invisible
(Post 30113006)
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I had a smaller bag stolen from inside my backpack flying from London to Rome it was a nice looking bag but it contained nothing but my freedom baggie, razor, toothbrush and some OTC drugs.
I didn't notice until I was on the train later in the day. I have been putting it under the seat since then. |
SriLankan and Malaysian did announcement on a few flights I took some weeks ago to have passengers keep an eye on their valuables, so I would imagine that this is quite widespread in some areas.
I personally would keep any valuables on myself on in the inside of the foot cubbies in J (making it inaccessible without waking me up) and definitely not on the overhead bins. |
Geez I kept my iPhone and iPad plugged into the charger most of the flight, even when I went to the bathroom.
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Originally Posted by wco81
(Post 30136304)
Geez I kept my iPhone and iPad plugged into the charger most of the flight, even when I went to the bathroom.
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Well it wouldn't be easy to wipe those devices anyways, even if they stole them.
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Originally Posted by wco81
(Post 30137030)
Well it wouldn't be easy to wipe those devices anyways, even if they stole them.
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My guess is that laptops and phones lying out in the open are less targets because the pax in question would notice immediately they were gone and raise trouble. All these thefts are of things that people won't realize are missing until later, when the plane has landed and the perpetrators have safely disappeared into the crowd.
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there were much news about incidents happening ex-HKG, prominently of those happened on an EK flight where some jewellery salesmen had his gold stolen or something.
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If you want to carry small things which are valuable and easy to hide like cash and jewelry, maybe you can't have too much sympathy for the victims.
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Originally Posted by wco81
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If you want to carry small things which are valuable and easy to hide like cash and jewelry, maybe you can't have too much sympathy for the victims.
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