Air Watch
2 NOVEMBER: SINGAPORE 28 NOVEMBER: ANCHORAGE 19 OCTOBER: MOSCOW
Gareth Gaudion, 48, was drunk, abusive, molested a Kirk Frederick Forest, 38, was arrested and accused The body of Ilgar Ashumov, 15, was found by a man
stewardess and grabbed a steward by his shirt on a of causing a disturbance on an Alaska Airlines flight walking his dog in the woods about 10 kilometres from the
Singapore Airlines flight from London. He was later from Seattle during which he allegedly both airport. The teenager had frozen to death in the wheel well
fined SGD $5,000. interfered with the crew and made a threat against of a plane and then fallen to the ground as the landing
4 NOVEMBER: MALTA
the plane. gear was extended for landing at Domodedovo Airport.
A former British soccer star, Paul Gascoigne, was
30 NOVEMBER: PHOENIX 25 OCTOBER: KINSHASA
barred from boarding his return flight to the UK due to
A Southwest Airlines flight taxiing to depart for Oakland A Bravo Air Congo aircraft struck and killed a soldier
ground staff identifying him as being too drunk to fly. He
was forced to return to the gate after a passenger a who was guarding the runway.
had appeared in an England vs. Italy veteran legends
man got up from his seat during the safety briefing, 25 OCTOBER: ATLANTA
game which was won 5-1 by Italy.
refused to sit down and then tried to open the locked
Chaganbhai Patel, 60, was found to be carrying a
9 NOVEMBER: VOLOS, GREECE
cockpit door.
number of knives, which he intended taking onto a
Russian supporters of Zenit St. Petersburg soccer team Delta Airlines flight bound for New York. Patel had a
were denied boarding a flight home due to their drunken INCIDENTS Chinese martial arts blade, 20 other smaller knives
behaviour. wrapped in tin foil and razor blades concealed in the
15 NOVEMBER: PORTLAND 4 OCTOBER: TUSCON battery compartment of a toy car. The authorities then
A US Airways flight from Seattle to Las Vegas diverted A cleaner found a loaded revolver inside the airside established that Patel was travelling with Shakarabhai
after two passengers, who had been acting men’s toilets. Patel, 64, who had already managed to board the
inappropriately in their seats decided to move to the 5 OCTOBER: UK aircraft; in the second man’s bag they found a box cutter
toilets. When challenged by crew, they allegedly Reports emerge that Captain and $5,000 cash.
threatened a flight attendant. Pablo Mason was sacked by My 26 OCTOBER: GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
15 NOVEMBER: PORTLAND Travel for having allowed Robbie Police at Cheddi Jagan International Airport intercepted two
James D. Terry, 45, is alleged to have tried to open the Savage, a Blackburn Rovers suitcases containing 14 parcels of compressed marijuana
door of a United Airlines flight en route from Chicago to soccer star, into the cockpit weighing approx 38.6 kg, three .38 revolvers, 55 rounds of
Portland whilst intoxicated. He had to be restrained by during a flight from Finland to the .38 ammunition, two rounds of .357 ammunition, two
passengers and crew. He was travelling to Portland in UK in August. Savage had a fear fragmentation grenades and two detonators; the suitcases
order to appear in court on motoring charges. of flying and made the request to were intercepted in the outgoing area while a flight destined
16 NOVEMBER: GLASGOW help allay his fears and Mason for Barbados and Antigua was being processed. It later
British singer Amy Winehouse is agreed as the flight was operating emerged that one of those eventually arrested worked for
alleged to have been caught smoking as a private charter. On 25 the ground handling company representing LIAT and she is
on board a British Airways flight from November Mason lost his appeal. alleged to have tagged the bag against an unwitting
London to Glasgow, locking herself in 8 OCTOBER: MANCHESTER passenger on the flight in question.
the toilet on 3 separate occassions. No 7 campaigners from the group Manchester Plane 30 OCTOBER: MANILA
charges were brought. Stupid handcuffed themselves in a line to blockade the An unattended bag lead to a full-scale evacuation of
18 NOVEMBER: DUBLIN entrance to Terminal 3. Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 2 minutes
Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, star of 11 OCTOBER: AMERICAN FALLS, IDAHO before a security inspection by President Gloria
“The Tudors,” was arrested and charged A single engine Alarus trainer plane, valued at Macapagal Arroyo; the inspection was cancelled.
with public drunkenness and breach of $130,000, was stolen overnight. Because of its rural 31 OCTOBER: ROMULUS, MICHIGAN
the peace at Dublin Airport. He had location, not all plane owners lock their aircraft and A British man, 22, who had missed his flight, tried to get
planned to fly on bmi to London. pilots do not have to identify themselves, further airside by running across all the lanes of the I-94, through
18 NOVEMBER: KUWAIT emphasising the lack of security regulation a field, across railway tracks and over 6 strands of barbed
Reports emerge that an intoxicated Kuwaiti man was pertaining to general aviation. wire before his attempt was put to a final halt by an airport
removed from a flight due to his behaviour on board and 11 OCTOBER: SINGAPORE security guard who tackled the man and sat on him.
his having urinated inside the plane. A Palestinian man, Osama R. M. Shublaq, managed 1 NOVEMBER: WASHINGTON DC
21 NOVEMBER: ATLANTA to stowaway in the wheel well of a Singapore The TSA refuted claims by the UK’s International
Victor Ryadchin, 63, was arrested and charged with Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur. He fell out on Development Minister, Shahid Malik, that he had been
having sexually assaulted a female passenger next to arrival, but was not seriously injured. He was detained for 40 minutes by screeners at Washington
him on a Delta flight from San Francisco. charged with entering the island illegally, then Dulles Airport. Subsequent examination of CCTV
22 NOVEMBER: FARGO deported back to Malaysia to face charges of footage of the screening checkpoint showed Mr Malik
Andrew Smith, 25, was charged with interfering with a trespassing at KLIA. had been processed within 8 minutes.
flight en route from Washington to Sacramento, causing 11 OCTOBER: MUMBAI 6 NOVEMBER: SHARJAH
its diversion. He displayed bizarre behaviour and 3.5 kg of diamonds and gold, which arrived on a Thai An Indian stowaway was discovered by the first officer
allegedly shouted, “we’re all gonna die, we’re gonna go Airways flight from Bangkok, was stolen. A few days of a Singapore Airlines cargo aircraft operating between
to hell”, before stripping off and running towards the later the goods were recovered and 3 Air India Sharjah and Amsterdam, one hour into the flight; the
cockpit. employees arrested. aircraft returned to Sharjah.
28 NOVEMBER: CAIRNS 18 OCTOBER: ATHENS 13 NOVEMBER: PHOENIX
Members of an Aboriginal dance troupe, Nunukul An El Al plane en route from London to Tel Aviv diverted A US Airways flight to San Antonio was evacuated
Yuggera, were ordered off a Jetstar flight after allegedly when an unclaimed laptop computer was found on during the boarding process when a baggage handler
racially abusing cabin crew. board. A passenger later realised it was his. noticed a bag that began emitting smoke on the tarmac.
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