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HIJACKS: SABOTAGE & ATTACKS: UNRULY PASSENGERS: JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS: INCIDENTS: THREATS:
22 JANUARY: GABORONE, BOTSWANA 24 JANUARY: MOGADISHU others, the man was
Amos Eteave Ako, 26, a Cameroonian Three mortar rounds, killing one and injuring allegedly intoxic-ated.
national being deported from Botswana, three others, were fired at the airport as a The incident was,
threatened to detonate a bomb on an Air U.N. delegation arrived. however, serious
Botswana flight bound for Johannesburg. enough to warrant the
According to a passenger, he held tubes 28 JANUARY: PANJGUR crew electing to divert
that he claimed contained an ammonia Six rockets were fired at Panjgur airport to Prague, where it was
and nitrogen compound; it later emerged allegedly targeting the Airport Security Force. escorted in by the
that they were lip balm and his asthma Czech Air Force.
inhaler. He stripped down to his 5 DECEMBER: NASHVILLE
underpants before surrendering when the A woman attempting to conceal her flatulence 31 DECEMBER: BUDAPEST
flight touched down at O R Tambo problem caused the diversion of an American A Monarch Airlines flight en route from
International Airport, Johannesburg. Ako Airlines flight. The sulphuric smell of burning Manchester to Goa diverted after an
was charged with the attempted hijacking matches alarmed passengers. inflight disturbance that resulted in 5
of an aeroplane and unlawful interference men being deplaned.
with an aircraft and crew. 13 DECEMBER: HOUSTON
Noboru Akao, 66, allegedly became 3 JANUARY: MUMBAI
24 JANUARY: KHARTOUM disruptive on a Continental Airlines flight from A passenger on an Air Deccan flight, which
An Air West flight was hijacked shortly Honolulu to Houston, after having been seen had been diverted to Mumbai due to fog,
after its departure from Khartoum for El to mix drinks with pills. He was moved to opened an emergency exit causing the slide
Fasher by another seat, where he is then alleged to to inflate.
Mahamat have groped a flight attendant. He was then
Abdelatif moved to the toilet, which he damaged. He 4 JANUARY: MOBILE
Mahamat, was arrested on arrival. Jake Peavy, a pitcher with the San Diego
aged 24. He Padres, was arrested at Mobile Regional
entered the 20 DECEMBER: DUNDEE, SCOTLAND Airport and charged with disorderly
unlocked Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, one of conduct.
cockpit , put Scotland’s leading lawyers, was charged
a gun to the Captain’s head and with disorderly conduct on board a 5 JANUARY: DENVER
demanded to go to London. Due to insuff- ScotAirways flight operating between Svetlana Yankovsky, a 51-year old
icient fuel, he agreed for the flight to divert London City and Dundee. Lord Fraser had Russian entertainer, was sentenced to
to N’Djamena, Chad, where he led the prosecution of the Lockerbie two months home detention for causing
surrendered. It is believed that he wished bombers; his alleged outburst occurred a Delta Air Lines flight, en route from
to claim asylum in the UK and to publicise the day before the 18
th
anniversary of Las Vegas to New York on 11 April 2006,
the plight of Darfur. the downing of Pan Am flight 103. to divert to Denver. She was intoxicated,
had slapped a flight attendant who had
4 DECEMBER: LAGOS 23 DECEMBER: CHENNAI confiscated her wine and had then
Around 30 armed robbers attacked the A 27-year old man was arrested on arrival started shouting that all the passengers
Bureau de Change at the airport, injuring one from Dubai for having been sexually abusive were going to die.
security guard and stealing approx. $1.2 to one of the Emirates flight attendants.
million in various currencies. 6 JANUARY: NEW DELHI
24 DECEMBER: LA GUARDIA, NEW YORK Mirasi Muslim Bilal caused the crew of
25 DECEMBER: MOGADISHU & BALIDOGLE A passenger was removed from a an Austrian Airlines jet operating from
Ethiopian military aircraft carried out Chautauqua Airlines flight bound for Portland, Vienna to New Delhi to declare an
bombing raids against both airports. Maine, after he handed a threatening note to emergency just before landing when he
a crewmember that allegedly claimed he had shouted out that he was carrying
26 DECEMBER: PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN AIDS and that the shedding of his blood and explosives and would blow up the plane.
One person was killed and two injured when a the blood of others would cure all sickness. Bilal, already intoxicated, had been
car bomb exploded at Peshawar International refused more alcohol.
Airport. 27 DECEMBER: FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
Andrew Kowalczyk, a 25-year old passenger 7 JANUARY: GREAT FALLS
30 DECEMBER: on a US Airways flight from Washington was Danny R. Reed, 32, was charged with interfering
MADRID arrested on arrival. The crew had refused him with flight crew after he became unruly on a Sky
Two Ecuadorian more alcohol, prompting a violent outburst West flight from Denver. He is alleged to have
immigrants were during which he slapped a passenger who been intoxicated and to have threatened and
killed when a truck just happened to be an undercover air assaulted a flight attendant, run up the aisle and
bomb detonated on marshal. started knocking on the cockpit door.
the 4th floor of the
car park at Madrid 28 DECEMBER: PRAGUE 8 JANUARY: NEW YORK
Barajas’ Terminal 4. A man attempted to gain access to the cockpit of It was reported that the actor Russell Crowe
Warnings had been an Aeroflot flight operating from Moscow to allegedly became disruptive and abusive to a
telephoned through Geneva, claiming to have an explosive device in flight attendant on a flight when he awoke to
to the authorities by his possession. He was overpowered by crew find that his wife had eaten his preferred
ETA. members and passengers. Travelling with eight meal of chicken satay. According to the New
4 www.asi-mag.com February 2007 Aviationsecurityinternational
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