Air Watch
13 MARCH: ABU DHABI 24 MARCH: KATOWICE, POLAND 14 FEBRUARY: ANTANANARIVO,
A fire started on an Etihad Airways flight Valery Dmitriyev, 44, was arrested when his MADAGASCAR
from Dhaka to Abu Dhabi when a passenger Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Kiev diverted An 11-year old stowaway managed to board
lit a cigarette in the toilet. The passenger due to his aggressive behaviour on board. a flight to La Reunion by convincing security
was not arrested but was been banned from personnel that he was looking for a toilet
further travel with the airline. 24 MARCH: WARSAW beyond the checkpoint and telling the flight
In the second diversion to Poland on the same attendant that his parents were already on
13 MARCH: BELFAST day, an LTU flight en route from Bangkok to board. He later said that, as he lived by the
Michael Roy Shick is alleged to have Dusseldorf landed because a man had become airport and saw aeroplanes every day, he
become extremely disruptive on a flight from drunk and disorderly. Despite his arrest, his was desperate to fly once in his life.
Vancouver to Belfast. He was arrested on wife decided to continue on to Germany with
arrival and charged with indecent assault on their child. 15 FEBRUARY: STOCKHOLM
a female, aggravated assault, disorderly Twenty environmental activists from the group
behaviour and using threatening and 25 MARCH: KOLKATA Klimax dressed as polar bears and demonstrated
insulting language to air crew. He was also Ramkrishna Dash allegedly became intoxicated at Bromma Airport. Similar demonstrations took
charged with being drunk on board an on a GMG Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kolkata place in Gothenburg and Uppsala.
aircraft, failing to obey commands from an and had to be restrained when he became
aircraft commander and criminal damage. abusive. He was later let off with a warning.
16 MARCH: DETROIT 27 MARCH: ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND
A Northwest Airlines flight was delayed after a A passenger, Dale Wetere, allegedly
passenger made an offensive comment to a became violent and abusive when he turned
Middle Eastern-looking passenger seated next to up late for his Qantas flight to Christchurch
him, which other people aboard overheard and and was told that he would have to rebook
reported. He was removed from the flight before on a later flight.
its departure to Atlanta.
27 MARCH: HANGZHOU
17 MARCH: GOOSE BAY Wo was arrested for allegedly threatening the
An Air Canada Flight en route from Frankfurt to crew of a China Eastern Airlines flight from
Toronto diverted to Happy Valley-Goose Bay Guangzhou that he would blow up the plane if he
when a 35-year old passenger became unruly. wasn’t given more beer.
18 MARCH: MINNEAPOLIS 28 MARCH: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
Gregory Abeyta was sentenced to three Six men were arrested on arrival for drunken and
months in prison for trying to assault disorderly behaviour on an Air Asia flight from 19 FEBRUARY: LONDON
passengers and crew on a Northwest flight Kuala Lumpur. Reports emerge that an Israeli Major, Doron
from Colorado Springs to Minneapolis-St. Almog, had refused to disembark an El Al
Paul when he was refused alcohol. flight when it landed in London on 11
INCIDENTS September 2005 as he had been tipped off
23 MARCH: PERTH by a military attaché from the Israeli
Members of the Stormers, a South African 6 FEBRUARY: AMSTERDAM embassy in London that he was to be
Super 14 rugby team, came to the A journalist, Alberto Stegeman, managed to arrested and charged with war crimes. The
assistance of the Qantas crew on their flight smuggle fake explosives and drugs onto police didn’t force the issue because they
from Sydney to Perth when an intoxicated aircraft at Schiphol over a 3-month period for feared that, with Israeli sky marshals on
passenger started causing trouble. a TV exposé by using the uniform and board, there might be a public safety issue
According to AAP reports, Team Manager identity badge of an associate who secured and, in any case, they seemed uncertain as
Frikkie Erasmus said, “The crew realised the a job as a baggage handler. to whether they had the right to board an
Stormers are quite big, so a few of the boys foreign airliner (which they did).
went back to deal with the guy. He became 9 FEBRUARY: SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
extremely aggressive and abusive. So that’s Three men, identified as trying to steal a vehicle
when one of our number gave him a bit of a from the Hertz rent-a-car outlet, tried to escape
slap. That seemed to do the trick.” from the police by climbing the airport fence, yet
ended up inside the airport’s restricted area and
23 MARCH: NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA were, therefore, easily arrested.
An Aircal ATR42 aircraft operating from
Noumea to Ile de Pines returned to Noumea 9 FEBRUARY: AUCKLAND
when an intoxicated passenger, being A day after New Zealand’s first hijack, a Sunday
abusive and violent, assaulted a flight News journalist further exposed security glitches
attendant. The passenger was restrained by by boarding a plane to Napier carrying a 20cm
his cousin. knife and a toy revolver.
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