Air Watch
22 FEBRUARY: CUZCO, PERU 25 FEBRUARY: MIAMI 14 MARCH: AUCKLAND
1500 demonstrators tried to force their way Faid Beydoun, a man with multiple A prisoner escaped from his escort at the airport
onto airport property in order to protest passports including one from Lebanon, prior to his being taken to a jail elsewhere in New
against hotel development near the ancient leapt off a second-floor concourse at Miami Zealand. When he failed to hail a taxi, he
Inca city of Machu Picchu. airport as he fled from TSA officers who had commandeered a bus with 20 passengers on
been trained in behavioural analysis and board, before members of the public managed to
24 FEBRUARY: HANGZHOU, CHINA had become suspicious of him. He fell 25- overpower him.
Four passengers were denied boarding their feet and broke his arm.
flight to Ghangzhou as one joked that the 21 MARCH: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
other three were terrorists. 2 MARCH: DURBAN An incident on board an American Airlines flight
Lungisane Mayeza was found asleep in the involving an adviser to Haitian President Rene
24 FEBRUARY: LUBBOCK toilets of a South African Airways aircraft Preval, Elisabeth Delatour, resulted in a
Mandi Hamlin, 37, was forced to remove her during pre-flight checks. It is believed he ran diplomatic row. Delatour was travelling in
nipple ring with pliers before boarding a across the apron in the night and managed to Business Class with her son and her nephew,
Southwest flight to Dallas prompting media board the under-guarded aircraft. and had purchased an upgrade for the latter.A
ridicule of TSA procedures. Hamlin’s lawyer, flight attendant allegedly insisted that the nephew
Gloria Alldred (left in picture) said, “After nipple 3 MARCH: JAMMU, INDIA sit in Economy so that an off-duty flight attendant
rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around A pistol being handed over to police by the could sit in Business Class, reportedly physically
the piercing, and the rings can be extremely Jammu and Kashmir Rural Development pushing the boy and being verbally aggressive.
difficult and painful to remove…. [Hamlin] still Minister, Javed Mustafa Mir, accidentally American Airlines has apologised for the incident.
crying, she informed the TSA officer that she discharged. The security staff of the Jetlite
could not remove it without the help of pliers, and flight had detected the licensed Chinese 22 MARCH: CHARLOTTE
the officer gave a pair to her”. pistol; whilst checking it, it was fired A pilot accidentally discharged his .40 calibre
resulting in injuries to two persons. semiautomatic H&K USP, that he was carrying
as a licensed Federal Flight Deck Officer, in
4 MARCH: PRINCE GEORGE, CANADA the cockpit of a US Airways flight as
A 41-year old mentally impaired man it was arriving from Denver. The bullet left a hole
hijacked an airport shuttle bus with five in the inner and outer fuselage skins, the outer
people on board. He is said to have jumped hole visible under the starboard side cockpit
on the bus after it was left idling as the window.
driver helped some people get off at the
Ramada Hotel. He drove at high speed, but
stopped when one of the passengers
started screaming; he then ordered the
passengers out and took off again, driving
through stop signs and stop lights and
almost striking several vehicles. He was
25 FEBRUARY: LONDON HEATHROW stopped when police laid down a spike belt
Four Greenpeace climate campaigners climbed several kilometres further along the road.
on top of a Manchester to London plane after it
parked at Terminal One and covered the tailfin 4 MARCH: SRINAGAR
with a protest banner. The two women and two Three live short-range teargas shells were found
men waited until all the passengers had outside the airport entrance gate.
disembarked from the flight before walking
through double doors, crossing an area of tarmac 11 MARCH: MILAN
and climbing stairs onto the fuselage of the Pro-Palestinian graffiti written in Arabic was
British Airways flight. found on the inside of an El Al aircraft’s
cargo hold after its arrival in Malpensa from
Tel Aviv.
13 MARCH: LONDON
Keetheeswaran Uthayakumar, a 27-year old 28 MARCH: PHUKET, THAILAND
Sri Lankan asylum seeker, scaled the A former flight attendant, Anamaree Correia,
perimeter fence at London Heathrow and ran claims that Australian soldiers travelling on a
onto a live runway the day before The Queen Jetstar flight from Sydney to Phuket spiked her
opened the new Terminal 5. He was seen by drink. She alleges that she went to the toilet and
the crew of an aircraft just about to depart and when she returned to her seat, drank a bottle of
they called the authorities. He was carrying a water and quickly felt ill. She is then said to have
backpack which was disrupted by EOD when fainted and woke up an hour later drenched in
police had tackled him. her own urine.
6 April 2008 Aviationsecurityinternational
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