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THREATS 13 FEBRUARY: BRISTOL, UK: 2 MARCH: CRAWLEY, UK
Frank Tobin, 47, was jailed for 12 weeks for having Gary John Collins, 57, appeared in court charged
10 FEBRUARY: ALGIERS been intoxicated and abusive, having drunk a with 36 counts of making bomb threats and two of
An anonymous caller claimed that a bomb would bottle of vodka, on a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to sending noxious substances to the operators of
explode within minutes inside the terminal building Bristol in December. London Gatwick Airport.
at Houari Boumediene Airport.
16 FEBRUARY: LONDON HEATHROW 6 MARCH: SEATTLE
24 FEBRUARY: YAKUTIA, RUSSIA 15 South African Airways crewmembers were A man was arrested in connection with recent
An 18-year old boy was arrested for telephoning arrested on arrival from Johannesburg after 5kg of incidents in which a laser beam has been aimed at
through a bomb threat about explosives having cocaine, with a street value of £250,000, was planes approaching Seattle-Tacoma International
been placed in Mirny and Lensk airports. discovered in a crew bag. Airport to land. Since 22nd February, pilots of more
than a dozen planes have reported that a laser
19 MARCH: KUWAIT 19 FEBRUARY: WASHINGTON beam was directed at them as they approached
A hoax call indicated that a bomb had been planted in Khalid al-Jawary, 63, was reported as having been Sea-Tac to land.
the lobby of the Kuwait International Airport. released from the Supermax prison in Colorado
and is to be deported. Al-Jawary was sentenced to 9 MARCH: CAIRNS
22 MARCH: LONDON 30 years in 1993 for various offences, including A 14-year old boy has been charged with three
A bomb threat note was found on an Emirates flight planting a bomb at JFK (which failed to detonate). counts of unlawful possession of a weapon and
from Dubai to Gatwick. Matthew Carney, 23, an It is thought by some that he was also behind the one count each of possession of ammunition,
Australian flight attendant working for Emirates, was 1974 bombing of a TWA flight that killed 88. bringing stolen goods in Queensland and
later arrested in conjunction with the threat. possession of tainted property.
12 MARCH: EDINBURGH:
JUDGEMENTS & David Hamilton, 35, was sentenced to 80 hours
ARRESTS community service for his behaviour on a
Globespan flight from Gran Canaria to
28 JANUARY: PLEIKU, VIETNAM Edinburgh in January. Hamilton had reacted to
Tran Thi Le Duyen, 23, was arrested at Pleiku Airport the passenger seated behind, who was
before boarding a flight to Da Nang City when a repeatedly banging his seat, by tripping him up
grenade was found in her carry-on baggage. Duyen on the way to the toilet.
claimed that her boyfriend had given her the box
(containing the grenade) to deliver to Da Nang City 25 FEBRUARY: REYKJAVIK 12 MARCH: PALM BEACH:
and that she had not checked the contents. Reports emerge that an Icelandic woman John Maxwell, a bestselling author and teaching
suspected of human trafficking was arrested at pastor at Christ Fellowship Church, was arrested
9 FEBRUARY: DUBAI Keflavík International Airport on arrival from when a gun was found in his luggage.
An Indian man went on trial accused of attempting to Amsterdam. She is suspected of operating brothels
bribe a security guard to allow him and five other both in central Reykjavík and in Hafnarfjördur. 21 MARCH: COPENHAGEN
passengers to board a flight to Lima via Rome. A flight taking Denmark’s Prince Frederik and
26 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY Princess Mary to Chicago was delayed two
9 FEBRUARY: CAPE TOWN Robert Hampshire, a renowned psychiatrist, hours after a fellow passenger allegedly said,
Four Somali nationals were arrested for trying to bribe appeared in court charged with having assaulted “funny they never found the bomb in my
a police officer to allow the passage of improperly his girlfriend, Elizabeth Burke, as they boarded a pocket”. The passenger was arrested.
documented passengers through the airport. Qantas Link flight to Wagga Wagga on 1st May
2008. Burke denied she was assaulted, claiming 24 MARCH: AYR, SCOTLAND
10 FEBRUARY: ROTTERDAM he only tapped her, but flight attendant Jenny Einar Magnus Halldorsson, 30, was due to
A man, identified only as K.K., was sentenced to McCann stated that she saw Hampshire punch stand trial for his behaviour on an Icelandic
six months imprisonment for telephoning in a hoax Burke in the neck and face with the side of a Express flight from Barcelona last March, but
hijack threat against a Transavia flight preparing to clenched right fist. It is alleged the row began in the the case could no longer be called because it
depart Rotterdam for Bodrum on 26th August 2008 Qantas Club, continuing through to gate 54 of became time barred. Halldorsson had originally
in order to stop his ex-girlfriend travelling to Turkey Sydney airport’s domestic Terminal 2, along the been charged with threatening to blow up the
with her new boyfriend. tarmac and up the stairs to the plane. aircraft when it was due for a refuelling stop at
Prestwick Airport, but the case was not called
11 FEBRUARY: SEOUL and, because it is now over a year since he first
Korean Airlines announced it is filing a lawsuit appeared in court, Halldorsson can no longer
against the parents of a 13-year old boy who made be prosecuted.
hoax calls resulting in the closure of Gimpo Airport.
31 MARCH: CARDIFF, WALES
13 FEBRUARY: TAMPA Gareth Jackson, 34, was jailed for eight months
Barbara Zaleski, 56, was arrested after screeners found for a drunken air rage attack on a Thomson flight
a loaded .38-calibre handgun in her carry-on baggage. from Sharm el-Sheikh to Cardiff in June 2008.
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