Air Watch
15 FEBRUARY: SAINT JEAN-DE-LUZ 5 MARCH: TEXAS THREATS
Mikel San Sebastian, 29, and Joseba Iturbide, 30, April Wormley, 36, was sentenced to two
both allegedly members of ETA and responsible years in prison and ordered to pay $19,761 4 FEBRUARY: N’DJAMENA, CHAD
for the car bomb attack at Madrid’s Barajas Airport in restitution for calling San Antonio Anti-government rebels threatened to attack the
in 2006, were arrested in France. International Airport several times on 21st airport as military helicopters were using it as a
April to claim there was a bomb aboard a base from which to attack civilian targets.
15 FEBRUARY: MALMO Southwest Airlines flight bound for Dallas.
Seven environmental activists were apprehended Five of the 36 phone calls were recorded. 5 FEBRUARY: NEW DELHI
when trying to break through the perimeter onto the Wormley said she was trying to end the An Alliance Air flight en route from New Delhi to
runway; some were dressed as polar bears. They relationship with her boyfriend, who was a Kanpur was the subject of a bomb and hijack
were charged with “intent to sabotage air traffic”. passenger on the flight and who she threat, prompting its return to Delhi.
believed would leave her alone after finding
17 FEBRUARY: TAMPA out she had made the calls. 11 FEBRUARY: HAMILTON
Benjamin Baines Jr., 21, was arrested when A man was taken off a Freedom Air flight after he
screeners found a box cutter in a hollowed-out 5 MARCH: SOUTHWEST FLORIDA alleged his trumpet case actually contained a machine
book, entitled “Fear Itself”. Other books in his Jason C. Kastner was arrested at a security gun. He is to be banned from the airline for 5 years.
backpack included “Muhammad in the Bible,” checkpoint and found to have a hunting knife with
“The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.” a four-inch blade underneath his vest. 13 FEBRUARY: KOZHIKODE, INDIA
He also had a copy of the Koran and the Bible. An Air India flight en route from Dubai to
7 MARCH: JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS Thiruvanan via Kozhikode was the subject of a
Oliver Stoldt, 39, said he had two bombs in his telephone bomb threat called in to the airline’s
bag when checking-in for his flight. He was booking office in Vellayambalam.
arrested and later fined £200.
19 FEBRUARY: FORT LAUDERDALE
11 MARCH: LOS ANGELES An Air Trans flight arriving from Philadelphia was
the subject of a bomb threat.
21 FEBRUARY: NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA
A bomb threat, written on a piece of paper, was
found on the seat of an Austral aircraft (albeit
bearing the Aerolineas Argentinas ensignia)
before its departure to Buenos Aires. 140 people
21 FEBRUARY: NIZHNY NOVGOROD, were evacuated into the terminal which, in turn,
RUSSIA was evacuated when a suspicious package was
An airport security official, Yury Naugolnykh, was found in a rubbish bin. The package turned out to
charged with violating flight safety rules for failing Robert Michael Meschino was arrested when be an Aloe Vera plant.
to thoroughly inspect an aircraft before a flight in screeners found a knuckle duster concealed in
September 2007. A 15-year old stowaway, Andrei his belt before he was due to board a
Shcherbakov, had climbed into the wheel well and Continental Airlines flight. At the same time, in
almost froze to death on a two-hour flight to the same terminal, in a different X-ray lane, Lev
Moscow from Perm; he later had to have all the S. Friedman, also flying Continental was found
fingers on his right hand amputated. to be carrying a Derringer-style torch lighter.
26 FEBRUARY: BUFFALO
Jose Roman, 27, was sentenced to 10 months
imprisonment and fined $2,867 for making death
threats to a JetBlue crew on a flight from Houston 29 FEBRUARY: THOMPSON, CANADA
to New York in June 2007. A woman is alleged to have made a bomb threat
on a Perimeter Airlines flight from Thompson to
29 FEBRUARY: GLASGOW Oxford House.
Albanian born Safet Bukoshi, 34, was extradited from
Ireland to face charges over setting a bmi jet on fire at 6 MARCH: PODGORICA, SERBIA
Glasgow Airport three years ago. Bukoshi allegedly A man called JAT Airways in Belgrade claiming
used a plank of wood to scale the perimeter fence at that a bomb had been placed in a JAT plane that
04:00 before torching the Embraer 145 on Stand 31. had already landed in Podgorica.
Firemen prevented a major explosion by controlling 16 MARCH: YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
the blaze before it spread to the plane’s fuel tanks, A member of the United States military, aged 20, 8 MARCH: KUWAIT
but the fire had caused damage to the fuselage, caused a panic at Yakima Air Terminal when he Two flights were evacuated on arrival following
spoiler, two windows and interior trim. Bukoshi had attempted to carry two training grenades on to an telephone bomb threats – a Saudia jet from Jeddah
fled the scene in his car. aircraft in his baggage. and a Kuwait Airways flight from Damascus.
8 April 2008 Aviationsecurityinternational
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44