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24 JULy: CHICAGO THREATS 5 JULy: NASSAU
A United Airlines flight en route from New An Air Jamaica flight was evacuated after an
York to Denver diverted when a suspicious 20 MAy: MADRID anonymous bomb threat.
white powder was found on board. It later Cabin crew found the word "bomb" written in
turned out to be an old paper napkin that had the toilets of a Ryanair flight operating from 23 JULy: MUMBAI
been soaked and dried up again and was Dublin to Madrid. An Indigo flight, en route from Delhi, was on
subsequently shredded. approach to Mumbai when, 15 minutes prior to
25 MAy: MUMBAI landing, Sanjay Mallik, 28, claimed there was a
25 JULy: yEREvAN An Oman Air flight to Chennai was diverted to bomb was on board and demanded that they
A passenger on an Armavia flight from Mumbai after a note was found in the lavatory divert to Karachi. The crew landed in Mumbai
Novosibirsk to Yerevan tried to commit suicide saying "You will die'' and, on searching, the regardless given that he claimed the bomb was
by cutting his wrists in the aircraft’s lavatory. crew found two circuit plugs. in a can of orange juice that the airline had
The crew, noticing that the door had been provided him. In the subsequent investigation, it
locked for an unusually long time, broke in and 27 MAy: ARGENTINA was determined that Mallik was delusional as
found the man to be unconscious. A doctor on An Air France flight to Paris was the subject of demonstrated by the fact that, when he was
board helped save the man. a bomb threat, four days before the tragic arrested he told the authorities that if he had
demise of another Air France flight operating been a cricketer, he would have been a better
28 JULy: CHIANG RAI, THAILAND the same route. player than national hero Sachin Tendulkar.
Kangwan Prima, a 35-year old Public
Relations Department official, was seriously 29 MAy: LARNACA, CyPRUS
injured in a blast during a bomb drill at the A Gulf Air plane was stopped minutes before
provincial airport. A suspicious-looking black take off after an anonymous caller to the
suitcase was placed in a parking space and a airline’s Nicosia offices warned that hijackers
bomb disposal team called in to neutralise the were on board.
“device” using gunpowder supplied by a
border ranger unit in Phayao. The impact of 1 JUNE: LyNCHBURG
the deactivation caused a 2cm metal fragment A US Airways Express Dash 8, preparing to
to lodge in Prima's chest while he filmed the depart for Charlotte, was evacuated and
exercise from 20 metres away. searched after a 23-year old passenger was
overheard saying, on his mobile, that the plane
wouldn’t make it to Charlotte. When
challenged, he broke his phone in half to
prevent anybody seeing details of the call; he
later claimed to be God, and was taken for
psychiatric assessment. 28 JULy: CEBU
A SilkAir flight set to depart for Singapore was
26 JUNE: AHMEDABAD evacuated when the airport’s manager
Two phone calls were received at the airport, received an SMS message saying the plane
threatening that a Jaipur-bound flight would would explode.
be hijacked and that a bomb would detonate
at the airport. 29 JULy: CAIRO
The crew of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight
27 JUNE: JEDDAH from Riyadh declared an emergency while on
The offices of Saudia received an anonymous approach to Cairo when a flight attendant
bomb threat to a flight operating from India to found a piece of paper with a bomb threat in
Saudi Arabia. the lavatories.
29 JULy: LONDON GATWICK
David Sheehan, 46, was subdued by Taser at 1 JULy: CHISINAU, MOLDOvA 29 JULy: MOSCOW
London Gatwick. He had been allegedly An anonymous caller claimed that Chisinau Svetlana S., a Moscow travel agent, made a
terrorising bus passengers while travelling from Airport had been mined. false bomb threat to help her sister,
Crawley to the airport, waving a weapon around Lyudmila, who was running late, make a
and threatening them before arriving at the 4 JULy: GANDER flight from Sheremetyevo to Odessa on time.
South Terminal. An Olympic Airlines flight from Athens to New The flight was delayed and Lyudmila did
York diverted to Gander after being the subject manage to depart on it, but her sister was
30 JULy: MALLORCA, SPAIN of a bomb threat. identified and arrested.
Spanish authorities temporarily closed
Palma de Mallorca Airport as investigators 5 JULy: MADRID 30 JULy: ABU DHABI
searched for the perpetrators of a bombing in Another Olympic Airlines flight en route from Passengers were evacuated from an Etihad
the beach resort of Palmanova that killed two Athens to New York diverted, this time to Airways flight set to depart for Damascus after a
police officers. Madrid, after the crew received a bomb threat. couple joked there was a bomb on board.
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