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7 JULy: MUMBAI 30 JULy: MUMBAI 22 MAy: PERTH
Lockwood George, 45, allegedly assaulted and Prasad Shetty and Shahnawaz Khan were Benjamin Johannes Schaafstall, 20, and Sara
head-butted immigration officials when he was allegedly intoxicated and caused the diversion Sofia Larres, 19, were fined AUS$1500 for
denied boarding a flight which he had not of a Dubai-bound Air India Express flight to creating a bomb scare at Perth Airport. They
checked-in for on time. Mumbai. They are said to have started fighting used a black marker to write “BOMB!” on a blue
with each other as soon as the aircraft had cooler bag with the intention of carrying it
8 JULy: AUCKLAND taken off from Mangalore. through security to see what reaction they
Michael Robert King, 45, was restrained on would get, but they then decided against their
board a flight from Hong Kong after he had original plan and abandoned the bag under a
allegedly been abusive to crew, destroyed three
JUDGEMENTS &
bench. The bag was discovered by police,
seats and started punching, spitting and biting.
ARRESTS
resulting in the evacuation of part of the
domestic terminal.
14 JULy: MIAMI 20 MAy: NEW yORK
A United Airlines flight en route from Sao Authorities arrested four men who were allegedly
Paulo to Chicago diverted reportedly as a involved in a plot to shoot down a U.S. military
result of an argument between the Captain aircraft and bomb two synagogues in New York.
and the flight purser. The men acquired two fake bombs from an
undercover FBI informant and planted the devices
16 JULy: MAURITIUS outside the Riverdale Temple and the Riverdale
A passenger assaulted another passenger on Jewish Centre in the Bronx. The FBI also provided
board an Air Mauritius flight, en route from Paris the men with an inactive missile, which the men
to Mauritius. Two doctors aboard administered planned to use to shoot down military cargo aircraft
first aid to the resulting bleeding head injury, yet at the New York Air National Guard Base at
the aircraft continued to Mauritius where the Stewart International Airport, following which the 25 MAy: LEWES, UK
assailant was arrested. men carried out surveillance near the airport to Matthew Carney, a 23-year old Australian
determine an appropriate spot from which to flight attendant, was jailed for 18 months for
16 JULy: TEL AvIv launch the attack. leaving a bomb threat note on an Emirates
An American citizen was arrested when he tried flight, en route from Dubai to London, on
to open the doors of a taxiing El Al aircraft set to 20 MAy: ORLANDO which he was working.
depart for New York. Sammy Fontanez-Mercado, 26, was convicted
of biting and swearing at a flight attendant on an 27 MAy: MUMBAI
18 JULy: IBIZA, SPAIN Orlando-bound JetBlue flight last year. An Israeli tourist was arrested after a gun clip
An Irish passenger was arrested on his was found in his bag during a security check.
arrival in Ibiza after an alleged assault on a 21 MAy: BANGOR
fellow passenger on a Thomson Airways Galina Rusanova, 27 MAy: DENvER
flight from Dublin. 54, pleaded guilty to A 12-year old boy was arrested for trying to take
three counts of a flare-like incendiary device through a security
21 JULy: MALAGA, SPAIN assault on three checkpoint at Denver International Airport.
A passenger became abusive to Ryanair flight attendants on
crew when they asked him to change seats 29th April and was 28 MAy: FORT WILLIAM, SCOTLAND
as his legs were blocking the aisle. The sentenced to time Rosen Romanov was fined £4,000 for
aircraft, en route from Marseille to served, or 22 days shining a laser torch into the cockpit of a
Marrakesh, diverted to Malaga. in jail. She admitted Sea King helicopter flying on a mercy
pushing a purser, mission, temporarily blinding its crew.
21 JULy: KOLKATA kicking one flight
Anindya Mukherjee, 35, was charged with attendant and biting 29 MAy: MOSCOW
molesting a 25-year old US student on an the ankle of another.
Emirates flight and then trying to force her into a
taxi outside the international terminal. Oleg Vasyanovich,
33, was convicted
22 JULy: TOKyO of and sent to a
British pop stars Lily Allen and Liam psychiatric hospital
Gallagher (of Oasis) are alleged to for threatening to
have become rowdy in the Upper blow up a Moscow-
Class cabin of a Virgin Atlantic flight bound Sky Express
from Heathrow to Japan as they drank flight if it was not
throughout the flight and had to be rerouted to Austria
continually asked to behave. last October.
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