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Air India crew members played Santa Claus to a stowaway on board an international flight on Raschel Blanket Christmas night — they gave him a blanket and biryani and brought him back home to India where he wanted to Mink Blanket be.

Moradabad farmer Habib Hussain, 25, Baby Confort was discovered mid-air as he hid in the washroom aboard a special Haj flight from Medina in Saudi Arabia to Jaipur.

The crew had two options — to return to the Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Airport and deplane Habib or to continue the journey to India.

“Going back to Medina would have meant a mandatory change of crew and the 273 passengers on board would have had to wait for another 12 hours or more. Many of them were elderly and tired after the Haj trip. Besides, Habib looked like he would be better off back home,” said a crew member of the flight on the condition of anonymity.

The flight commander — considered the supreme authority in such instances under international law — decided to continue the flight after satisfying himself there was no safety or security threat.