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HIJACKS: SABOTAGE & ATTACKS: UNRULY PASSENGERS: JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS: INCIDENTS: THREATS:
York Daily News he is alleged to have said, “If and arrest of a female passenger travelling to eventually deplaned and arrested.
I tell you I want something, you put it aside for the United States carrying 3kg of cocaine.
me. Or wake me up. Is there some kind of 29 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES
language barrier here?” 25 DECEMBER: CHENNAI Yechezkel Wells, 22, a dual US/Israeli citizen,
Thomas George was arrested when a customs was sentenced to 6-months home detention and
12 JANUARY: CINCINNATI inspection of his baggage revealed that it community service for having telephoned in a
An 81-year old man became disruptive on a contained a rifle and fifty cartridges. George had bomb threat to Long Beach Airport last year to
Delta Airlines flight from Orlando. It is alleged arrived on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt but delay his JetBlue flight. He was also fined $1,000.
he saw a newspaper and pen in one of the had originally boarded in Los Angeles.
flight attendant’s bags and took them back to 31 JANUARY: CAPE TOWN
his seat and started doing the crossword. 9 JANUARY: LAGOS Tinashe Rioga, the Zimbabwean student who
When confronted by the flight attendant, he Five men were charged for allegedly being in allegedly tried to hijack an SAA flight from
hit her with the newspaper. He was denied possession of explosives and attempting to Cape Town to Johannesburg, was declared
boarding the connecting flight to Lansing, but smuggle them onto an Abuja-bound Bellview unfit to stand trial in terms of the South
his daughter and grandson continued on the Airlines aircraft on 18 November 2006. African Mental Disorders Act. He has been
journey! certified as being schizophrenic.
10 JANUARY: HONG KONG
15 JANUARY: BANGKOK Joselito Daza and Sarah Daza, from the 28 NOVEMBER: ULAANBAATAR,
Reports emerge of a drunken brawl, involving Philippines, were arrested and later fined MONGOLIA
around 20 passengers, that erupted on a HK$5,000 when Joselito Daza joked to a Cebu A hijack exercise, involving real passengers and
Transaero flight operating from Ekaterinburg Pacific flight attendant, who was trying to help a real flight, went badly wrong as neither the
to Bangkok. him stow his baggage in preparation for take off passengers, the airline nor the police had been
to Manila, that he had a bomb in the bag. advised that the Mongolian authorities were
21 JANUARY: NEWCASTLE, UK about to effect an exercise at Chinggis Khan
Eight men were arrested when their Easyjet 12 JANUARY: BOSTON Airport. A MIAT Mongolian Airlines Antonov 26
flight from Alicante landed following an in- John Cerqueira, a US computer consultant of arrived from Dalanzadgad and, once most of
flight fight. Portuguese descent, was awarded $400k in the passengers had disembarked, four armed
damages from American Airlines for their having masked men, who had been passengers on
21 JANUARY: SAN FRANCISCO denied him boarding a flight in 2003 due, he the flight, shouted at those remaining on board
Erin Callahan Lambert, 28, was arrested on claimed, to his appearing to be Middle Eastern. that the aircraft was being hijacked. The
arrival for allegedly making statements about Captain was held at gunpoint.
a hijacking, trying to open a cabin door and 13 JANUARY: DUBAI
for fighting with flight attendants on her A passenger, Nusli Wadia, arriving on an Air 6 DECEMBER: BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN
United Airlines flight from Boston. The India flight from Mumbai was found to have a An American serviceman shot and killed
incident started when she was caught using revolver and 30 live bullets in his baggage. Alexandr Ivanov, the driver of a fuel truck, at a
her mobile phone and, when told to turn it Wadia claimed that his domestic staff checkpoint at Bishkek’s Manas International
off, said that she was calling 911 because packed his bag for him and that he didn’t Airport when Ivanov allegedly threatened him
the flight was being hijacked. know he had his gun with him. with a knife.
3 DECEMBER: INDIANAPOLIS 14 JANUARY: SICHUAN, CHINA 14 DECEMBER: OSAKA
Carlos M. Delay, 19, was A man named as Yang, 40, was arrested for It was announced that Yoshimi Tanaka, 58,
arrested for carrying a pellet trying to carry a pistol, concealed in the inner convicted of hijacking a Japan Airlines flight
gun and wearing body armour, layer of his carry-on baggage, onto a flight to in 1970, is to be released from prison due to
allegedly for protection and Guangzhou. illness. He was sentenced to 12 years in
self- defence. He was escorting February 2002.
relatives to the airport and was 15 JANUARY: DOHA
not flying himself. Michell, a 22-year old Eritrean man employed 15 DECEMBER: PORTO, PORTUGAL
as a camel jockey, appeared in court charged Reports emerge that, a week earlier, the
19 DECEMBER: BOBIGNY, FRANCE with the attempted hijacking of a Qatar airport had prepared itself to receive a
Jean-Jacques Jauffret, who weighs in excess Airways flight (operating between Amman hijacked Lufthansa jet arriving from
of 160kg, took Air France to court for and Doha last August) to Israel armed with a Frankfurt. The aircraft had not been hijacked
humiliating him in New Delhi in 2005 by rope and a bottle. but had deviated from its routing causing
charging him for a second seat. Ground staff French air traffic control concern.
allegedly measured his waist in public and 16 JANUARY: DETROIT
decided he was too big for a single seat. Mohammed S. Ghanem, 22, was sentenced to 18-21 DECEMBER: SPAIN
Jauffret seeks €8,000 in damages and one year in gaol for having tried to smuggle a Various clashes between passengers and police
reimbursement of the extra ticket. small knife in a book through airport security as were reported at airports in Spain following the
he was leaving for his native Yemen. suspension of Air Madrid’s operations leaving
20 DECEMBER: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA thousands of passengers stranded.
Reports emerge that the Chief of Security 23 JANUARY: CAPE TOWN
and 3 other security guards at Jose Maria A 26-year old man was arrested for saying he 19 DECEMBER: RALEIGH-DURHAM
Cordova International Airport were arrested had a bomb in a box he was carrying at the Gregory Wester, 32, was found on a Delta
for alleged involvement in a drug trafficking screening checkpoint. Although initially Airlines aircraft by cleaners; he had allegedly
ring; they were seen preventing the search allowed to board his Kulula flight, he was scaled a security fence to gain airside access.
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