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UNRULY PASSENGERS 19 DECEMBER: BERGEN, NORWAY
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A Norwegian Air Shuttle en route from Bergen to
3 DECEMBER: BRATISLAVA & Trondheim returned to Bergen when a passenger
BIRMINGHAM is alleged to have had a panic attack, following a
Soccer fans travelling on Ryan Air from Bratislava flash of lightning, resulting in his shouting and
to Birmingham for a UEFA Cup match between threatening other passengers; he is also reported
Žilina and Aston Villa caused trouble before, during to have bitten a fellow passenger.
and after their flight. In Bratisalva, one passenger
was removed from the flight when he smacked a 26 DECEMBER: OMAHA
flight attendant on her backside. In-flight, A passenger was restrained on a Continental Air
intoxicated passengers behaved abusively and it Express flight from Houston to Omaha when a
was reported that money was stolen from the man exited the aircraft’s rear toilets covered in his
refreshments trolley; another flight attendant was own faeces. The flight attendant asked him to
subject to sexual abuse. Police met the aircraft on clean himself up, but the passenger then attacked
arrival and Slovak fans even mocked them about the crewmember. It is believed that the assailant
their uniforms. was returning to a care facility alone having been
SABOTAGE & ATTACKS allowed home for Christmas.
10 DECEMBER: TEHRAN 30 DECEMBER: PUNTA CANA,
Militant group Ikhwan Al Radwan (Brothers of DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Heaven) attacked the offices of Saudi Arabia’s A Skyservice Airlines flight en route from
state-owned airline with Molotov cocktails in Bridgetown to Toronto diverted after Adrian
response to the Saudi-backed peace initiative Worrell, 33, allegedly became disruptive,
with Israel. assaulted a flight attendant and attempted to open
an exit door.
27 DECEMBER: KATHMANDU
An improvised explosive device exploded 31 DECEMBER: BERMUDA
outside the main gate of Tribhuvan 13 DECEMBER: HAWAII A Thomsonfly aircraft, en route from
International Airport, injuring one person. Raymond Fessler, 55, was on a US Airways flight Manchester to Punta Cana, in the Dominican
Ranabir Sena, a little-known group in Nepal, en route from Phoenix to Lihu’e when, allegedly Republic, diverted to Bermuda after a fight
claimed the responsibility for the blast. five minutes before landing he stood up, broke out on board. Three men were arrested
approached the cockpit and hit the two flight by police when it landed.
28 DECEMBER: VIZCATAN, PERU attendants, Sarah Balster and Patricia Allen, who
The Shining Path rebel group killed one soldier in tried to stop him; they sustained bruising to their 3 JANUARY: ST. LOUIS
an attack on a supply helicopter and wounded two faces and arms. He was restrained by an off-duty A passenger on a United Express flight preparing
others. The helicopter survived the attack but the pilot and three male passengers. to depart Lambert St. Louis for Washington Dulles
soldier was killed on the ground when he tried to allegedly made a bomb threat when a
prevent the attack. 16 DECEMBER: HOLGUIN, CUBA crewmember asked him to close his laptop for
40 Irish passengers became an unruly drunken take-off.
mob on a flight from London Gatwick to Holguin as
they drank mojitos. On their return flight, on 30 4 JANUARY: GANDER
December, 17 of the group were prevented from Sergey Kotsur, a Russian passenger on a Delta
boarding after they turned up drunk at the airport. flight from Moscow and Atlanta, caused it to be
diverted when, having allegedly drunk 1.5 litres
16 DECEMBER: SALT LAKE CITY of whisky, he started fighting with his wife,
A Jetblue flight en route from New York to Burbank sexually assaulted a flight attendant and
diverted to Salt Lake City when Shalom Yarimo banged his head repeatedly against the
allegedly refused to comply with the instructions of fuselage. He was later fined $10,000 and
the crew and began shouting at other passengers ordered to pay $20,000 to Delta Airlines.
2 JANUARY: COLOMBO whilst intoxicated.
The LTTE (Tamil Tigers) are believed to be
responsible for a suicide bomb attack at Sri
Lanka’s Air Force HQ; 2 people were killed and
32 injured.
19 JANUARY: PORT MORESBY,
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A security guard was shot and injured when an
armed gang robbed a foreign exchange bank at
the airport.
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