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It always helps to know what Shell you have.

One unrefinded idea which should still work whether or not the file exists. Of couse if the file does not exist, ${src_filename} is blank.
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If it evaluates src_filename1 as the path, then it does exist -- it's the directory $AI_LANDING. And it's not empty, so the test passes. All kosher there.

As for your original problem, I'd put it...

try this
#!/bin/ksh
AI_LANDING=/searchdir
ls -1 ${AI_LANDING}/abc*|while read -r src_filename1 ; do
print "Checking for file $src_filename1 ...."
if [[ ! -s $src_filename1 ]]
then
print -u2...