Air Watch
6 JANUARY: TAIPEI 24 JANUARY: SYDNEY 1 JANUARY: WASHINGTON
Wu, a Singaporean woman, was removed Ryan James Churchill, 29, caused the diversion of a A Muslim family was removed from an
from a Singapore Airlines flight in Taipei. Virgin Blue jet en route from Hobart to Brisbane. He AirTran flight set to depart for Florida after
She was being assisted by an air boarded the flight in Hobart but soon became other passengers became concerned about
stewardess to load her hand luggage into disruptive, wanting to go to the toilet before the seatbelt their conversation.
the overhead compartment, but when the sign was switched off. He then ordered a beer with his
stewardess asked Ms Wu why her luggage meal and immediately asked for another. When the 4 JANUARY: BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA
felt so heavy, Wu responded that it flight attendant told him she would attend to the other Jose Peyan-Leal, 22, suspected of shooting
contained a bomb. passengers first, he allegedly yelled: “Who are you, a man and stealing his SUV, was chased by
slut, not to serve me?” When police boarded the police and ended up crashing through an
7 JANUARY: KEFLAVIK, ICELAND aircraft in Sydney, he spat at them and resisted arrest. access point at Bakersfield Municipal
A United Airlines flight en route from San Airport, where he drove the vehicle around
Francisco to Frankfurt diverted to Keflavik the manoeuvring area and hangars, before
because of a disruptive passenger incident
INCIDENTS
crashing. Peyan-Leal tried to flee on foot,
whilst the aircraft was over Greenland. One but was shot dead by the police.
passenger was injured in the incident and 3 DECEMBER: STOCKHOLM
another restrained. Police began investigating a hole in one of the 4 JANUARY: MALDIVES
ailerons of an SAS flight that had returned from Soldiers from the Maldives National Defence
7 JANUARY: DARWIN Phuket, Thailand. The hole looked suspiciously Force were deployed to Gan International Airport
A passenger became disruptive on a like it had been made by a bullet. in order to keep the airport operational whilst staff
Jetstar flight prior to its departure to industrial action was in progress.
Melbourne. He was off-loaded and flew 8 DECEMBER: LONDON STANSTED
later in the day. Members of the Plane Stupid environmental 5 JANUARY: PORT MORESBY,
protest group cut through the airport’s perimeter PAPUA NEW GUINEA
7 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES fence, then chained themselves together and built A grenade was found in the seat pocket of
A passenger on a Delta flight en route from a barrier around themselves on the tarmac. All an Air Niugini aircraft that had just arrived
Atlanta to Los Angeles had to be restrained flights were stopped. Later, Essex police charged from Buka.
by crew and passengers after he claimed to 49 people with aggravated trespass.
have a bomb and made an attempt to open 8 JANUARY: CEBU, PHILIPPINES
an emergency exit. 9 DECEMBER: NOUMEA, Jessie Jumadiao, 33, a security guard at
NEW CALEDONIA Cebu Airport, shot dead a taxi driver, Serafin
12 JANUARY: MUMBAI Police were called to Noumea’s Magenta Gesta, when he refused to move his taxi,
Vallimuthil T. Vishwanatha Panicker, 42, domestic airport as tempers flared after a strike which was parked in an unauthorised
became intoxicated on an Air India flight from grounded the domestic carrier, Aircal. location. Gesta allegedly ignored Jumadiao,
JFK. He became aggressive towards an elderly then physically attacked him before walking
passenger and abusive to female cabin crew. 25 DECEMBER: PEASE, away; he was then shot by Jumadiao, who is
He was later fined Rs. 1,200. NEW HAMPSHIRE now facing murder charges.
A 70-year old woman, who claimed to have lost
20 JANUARY: PHOENIX her way, ended up driving her Toyota Yaris onto 12 JANUARY: SHANGHAI
A passenger jumped out of an emergency the runway at Pease Airport. Fearing an aircraft Airport security staff ordered Yu Fahai, a 58-year
exit onto the wing of a Delta Airlines would land or take-off, she called the police for old retired policeman, to drink his ownurine
aircraft at Sky Harbor after it had parked assistance. sample to prove it was safe. Yu, who received a
at the gate. kidney transplant several years ago, has to
31 DECEMBER: ALICE SPRINGS regularly test his urine for infection and was
20 JANUARY: MANCHESTER A Vietnam Airlines flight en route from Ho Chi carrying a vial to such effect.
An Aer Lingus flight, en route from Dublin to Minh City to Sydney diverted to Alice Springs
Bucharest, diverted when two Romanian when a woman collapsed in-flight. In hospital, 13 JANUARY: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND
passengers started fighting on board. as her situation worsened, she was operated Lasers were aimed at the pilots of two
on and was found to be smuggling heroin in Eastern Airways planes as they tried to land
21 JANUARY: CAIRO, EGYPT condoms internally. at Aberdeen Airport.
A Russian tourist ran around the airport
nude due to intoxication. He was arrested 31 DECEMBER: CAIRNS
and reprimanded. A man shot a flare into the air and into the path of
an aircraft landing at Cairns airport during New
21 JANUARY: LONDON Year’s Eve celebrations.
A Novair flight, routed to Las Palmas from
Oslo, diverted to London Gatwick when an 31 DECEMBER: MT. HAGEN,
intoxicated passenger hit a crewmember in PAPUA NEW GUINEA
the face. It is claimed that he also had a fear Police found a rocket launcher and nine grenades
of flying. in a passenger’s baggage at Mt Hagen airport.
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