Air Watch
24 MARCH: PAPHOS, CYPRUS 11 FEBRUARY: KUTAISI, GEORGIA: 9 MARCH: ENTEBBE, UGANDA
Sixty soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Duke of A container of radioactive Caesium 137 was An Aerolift flight, carrying cargo for Somalia-based
Lancaster’s Regiment were removed from an found outside Kutaisi’s Kopitnari Airport. The Ugandan peacekeepers, crashed for unknown
easyJet flight before its departure to Manchester due source of the material has not been identified, reasons into Lake Victoria and sank two minutes after
to the number of them that were regarded by the but reports indicate that Caesium-137 is water- taking off from Entebbe International Airport. The
crew as being drunk. Given the number of soldiers, soluble, highly toxic in tiny amounts and, once owner of the Il-76 aircraft, Yevgeniy Zakharov, said an
the Captain pretended that there was a technical fault released into the environment, has a radiological act of sabotage or surface-to-air missile could be to
with the aircraft and asked everybody to deplane; half-life of over 30 years. blame for the crash that killed 11 people on board.
they then re-boarded without the soldiers.
17 FEBRUARY: LONDON CITY AIRPORT
28 MARCH: DENVER A Swiss International Airlines pilot became angry
A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Detroit and pulled down his trousers and underwear
diverted to Denver when a woman, in her 60’s when asked to remove his shoes and belt at a
became violent. She was in line to use the toilet checkpoint. His flight was delayed two hours
when a male passenger bumped into her; she whilst he was questioned by police.
slapped him in the face and hit him on the head
twice accusing him of touching her. The woman is 17 FEBRUARY: SOUTHAMPTON
also alleged to have attacked a flight attendant Police removed anti-aviation activists who had
who tried to intervene. chained themselves to the entrance of
Southampton Airport. 10 MARCH: CAIRNS
29 MARCH: NEW YORK Two boys, aged 14 and 11, are alleged to have
Robert McDonald opened the emergency hatch of 18 FEBRUARY: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA smuggled an arsenal of weapons and ammunition
a Delta Airlines aircraft due to a three-hour delay Eight people were injured when a tear gas through two states. They packed stolen pistols,
on the tarmac at JFK as a result of bad weather; grenade exploded inside a DC-3 aircraft operated knives and 3000 rounds of ammunition in their
the crew prevented him from deploying the slide. by the Colombian Police Special Forces. The check-in luggage on a Qantas flight from Karratha
plane was going to transport officers with the to Perth and then onto a flight to Cairns where
29 MARCH: REYKJAVIK mobile anti-riot squadron, or Esmad, to Quibdo. they were arrested.
A Lufthansa flight from Houston was about to
divert to Iceland’s Keflavik Airport due to a 22 FEBRUARY: ATHENS 11 MARCH: BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA
Russian passenger’s behaviour yet as he calmed Greece’s most wanted criminal Vassilis Kim Hyun-hee, one of the perpetrators of the
down, the Captain elected to continue on to Paleokostas and Albanian convict Alket Rizaj bombing of a Korean airliner in 1987, met with
Frankfurt. He had shown conspicuous interest in escaped Korydallos high-security prison by family members of a Japanese woman who was
the safety measures on board and later hinted helicopter, having escaped from the same prison apparently abducted by North Korean agents as
that he was a security official for Afghanistan. He the same way in June 2006. The helicopter she says she believes the woman is still alive, and
then made a dummy “bomb” out of several objects landed on a roof and a rope ladder was dropped that she saw her before leaving North Korea on
in his possession and deposited it in a lavatory, to allow the two men to board. Prison guards her bombing mission. The North Koreans claim
before pointing it out to the crew. He was moved opened fire on the helicopter. The aircraft was the Japanese woman is dead.
back to his seat, but then repeated the exercise. later found abandoned in the middle of a road in
an Athens suburb.
INCIDENTS
26 JANUARY: SASKATOON
Two men aged 23 preparing to board a United
Airlines flight to Denver were detained by police due
to passenger concerns about their conversation.
29 JANUARY: PORT OF SPAIN,
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
A security guard at Piarco Airport was 25 FEBRUARY: MIAMI
abducted and assaulted by two customs Mark Rimkufski, 49, was rushing to the airport to 11 MARCH: NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA
officers after he refused them entry to the catch his American Airlines flight to Los Angeles, but 200 French police officers and 300 of New
restricted zone when one of them failed to found that the gate had already closed and the plane Caledonia’s hard-line local USTKE union clashed
produce the appropriate identification. was departing. Carrying a ‘’Fisher Island Chief of at the entrance to La Tontouta Airport, Nouméa.
Police’’ badge and claiming that he was a U.S. air The USTKE (Kanak and Exploited Workers
1 FEBRUARY: MIDDLETON, WISCONSCIN marshal, Rimkufski convinced Miami airline Union) said they were attempting to blockade the
Police identified what they thought to be a pipe employees to allow him on a flight. Real air marshals airport, in protest against uncontrolled immigration
bomb taped to the side of a fuel truck at Morey on board were suspicious of him and had him and to highlight the need for affirmative action for
Field Airport. The device, which turned out to be a removed from the aircraft. He was later charged with local workers. The police had to use tear gas to
fake device, was dealt with by EOD officers. falsely impersonating a law enforcement officer. disperse the protesters..
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