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HIJACKS: SABOTAGE & ATTACKS: UNRULY PASSENGERS: JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS: INCIDENTS: THREATS:
21 DECEMBER: VARNA, BULGARIA 15 JANUARY: BRUSSELS 15 DECEMBER: TOLEDO
A Russian sailor’s bag caused the delay of his A body was found in the wheel well of an SN A Delta Connection flight to Cincinnati was
Austrian Airlines flight to Vienna. X-ray Brussels Airlines flight that had just arrived evacuated after a passenger found an aircraft
examination revealed a suspect IED which from Banjul via Dakar. safety information card with anti-American
later turned out to be a bar of soap wrapped sentiments written on it and an arrow pointing
in wiring and had been put in his bag by 15 JANUARY: SEATTLE to the rear of the plane with word “bomb”.
shipmates as a joke. A 9-year old boy, Semaj Booker, managed
to board a Southwest Airlines flight without 18 DECEMBER: FORT WAYNE
22 DECEMBER: SYDNEY showing any ticket or identification. He A Chautauqua Airlines aircraft was evacuated
A male flight attendant was fired by Qantas was heading for Dallas and only caught after a bomb threat note was discovered
for allegedly sabotaging international flights whilst in transit in San Antonio having inside a magazine.
on which he operated. It is believed that, already changed plane once in Phoenix. He
amongst other acts, he shoved blankets down had allegedly told the check-in agent that 20 DECEMBER: BANGKOK
toilets making them unserviceable and his mother was already at the gate and so An Indian woman travelling on a Thai Airways
tampered with interphones. given a boarding pass. International flight to Dubai, via Chennai,
caused a 3-hour delay when she claimed that
27 DECEMBER: SAO PAULO 16 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES she had received a bomb threat on her
Passengers blocked the departure of a TAM A woman put her month-old grandson into a mobile phone.
Linhas Aereas aircraft from departing for plastic tray intended for carry-on items and
Recife. They had been kept waiting on an slid it into an X-ray machine. 28 DECEMBER: IRKUTSK
airport shuttle bus for more than 40 minutes, The airport was closed following a telephone
only to see the aircraft then close its doors for 19 JANUARY: MELBOURNE bomb threat.
departure. Allen Jasson, 55, was denied boarding a
Qantas flight to London because he was 31 DECEMBER: SHANNON
2 JANUARY: MACKAY, AUSTRALIA wearing a T-shirt that claimed President An Olympic Airways flight, en route from
A man was arrested when he forced his George Bush was a terrorist. Athens to New York, diverted to Shannon
way onto the tarmac in a last ditch effort to when a man telephoned a bomb threat
board a Virgin Blue flight to Brisbane that 21 JANUARY: AUCKLAND through to Athens airport claiming that a
he was late for. A group of Sikh priests boarded an Air New bomb had been placed on the flight as a
Zealand plane for Napier wearing result of the execution of Saddam
4 JANUARY: BUDAPEST ceremonial daggers (kirpans). Other Hussein.
An Albanian man being deported from Norway passengers noticed the kirpans protruding
under the escort of two Norwegian police officers from their robes and expressed concern. 5 JANUARY: BILBAO
managed to get away from his escorts whilst in The priests handed over the kirpans to the A caller, alleging to be from ETA, telephoned
transit in Budapest for a flight to Tirana, Albania. crew who kept them in the cockpit for the in a bomb threat that indicated a device had
He then tried to board a Malev flight to Kiev duration of the flight. been planted at Bilbao’s Sondica Airport. No
instead, causing delays to that flight and the device was found.
Malev flight to Tirana, before threatening to 23 JANUARY: LAS VEGAS
detonate a bomb at the airport. He was later The perimeter fence at the Quail Air Centre 10 JANUARY: CHENNAI
given a six-month suspended sentence and of Las Vegas airport was scaled by an A hijack threat was called in citing an Indian
banned from entering Hungary for three years. intoxicated man who went on to steal a Airlines flight set to depart for Hyderabad.
baggage tug and drive it around the
7 JANUARY: FRANKFURT tarmac. He damaged the wing of a 12 JANUARY: TOLEDO
40 American Muslims returning from a Hajj Gulfstream business jet and a section of An American Eagle flight departing to Chicago
trip to Mecca were prevented from boarding a the fence before rolling the tug into a was delayed by a telephone bomb threat.
Northwest flight to Detroit as they had ditch.
checked in late and had not completed 15 JANUARY: PAPHOS
security processes. The airline is negotiating 24 JANUARY: EDINBURGH A Cyprus Airways flight en route from Larnaca
a compensation package. A rucksack found in a rubbish bin caused the to Athens diverted after authorities at Athens
evacuation of the terminal. airport received a telephone bomb threat.
10 JANUARY: PORT MORESBY, PAPUA
NEW GUINEA 28 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES 17 JANUARY: PRAGUE
Opposing police factions drew weapons on The body of a South African later named as The airport was closed following an email
each other at Port Moresby’s Jackson Airport. Samuel Peter Benjamin, 17, was found in the bomb threat.
The officers from two factions, one backing wheel well of a British Airways B-747 that had
the current Police Commissioner, and the just arrived from London. 29 JANUARY: ST. KITTS
other backing the new Police Commissioner, A Skyservice flight operating to Toronto via
Gari Baki, confronted each other when the 1 DECEMBER: GEORGETOWN, GUYANA Antigua was delayed due to a bomb threat
new Commissioner arrived at the airport. An e-mail was sent to several agencies, allegedly called in by Markus Smith, a
including BWIA in Jamaica and the US Canadian passenger who was going to miss
12 JANUARY: ATLANTA Embassy in Guyana, indicating that a the flight and who has since been arrested
A body was found in the wheel well of a Delta chemical attack would be carried out against and Imitaz Khan, who was travelling with
Airlines flight that had just arrived from Dakar, BWIA and two US airlines operating from Smith but left the Caribbean on another
Senegal. Guyana. flight.
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