Air Watch
28 MARCH: SYDNEY 8 FEBRUARY: JEFFERSON CITY, USA 11 FEBRUARY: ASSAM
Green laser lights were targeted at Kerry McCubbin, 22, is alleged to have stolen a Lachit Bordoloi and Suman Das were
aircraft approaching Sydney airport in a Cessna 150 and flown it to his home, where it arrested in connection with the same
seemingly coordinated attack. Six aircraft became stuck in a field. McCubbin claims to have ULFA plot to hijack an aircraft departing
had to alter their approach routes. an account with the flying club and had intended Borjhar. Reports indicate that Bordoloi is
to take the aircraft out for an hour yet had a leader of a human rights group known
encountered engine problems. as MASS (Manab Adhikar Suraksha
JUDGEMENTS & Samiti) and one of the nine members of
ARRESTS 10 FEBRUARY: HANOI the ULFA-constituted PCG (People’s
Pham Van Cong, 20, was arrested in Hanoi on Consultative Group) for facilitating peace
5 FEBRUARY: NEW DELHI his return from visiting his parents in the Czech talks between the central government and
Abdul Latif, Dalip Kumar and Yusuf Nepali were Republic. He was found to have a pistol and 15 the militant outfit. Das is an employee of
sentenced to life imprisonment for their bullets in a wine box in his luggage which, he Shija Tours, the ground handling agent of
involvement in the 1999 hijacking of an Indian alleges, his mother packed for him. a private airline.
Airlines flight to Qandahar. All 3 were found
guilty of conspiracy. 10 FEBRUARY: ASSAM 14 FEBRUARY: LOS ANGELES
Nekibur Zaman was arrested in connection with a Gary Garratt, an employee of Court
5 FEBRUARY: LONDON ULFA plot to hijack an aircraft departing Borjhar. Services Inc., was indicted for carrying a
Five members of a Caribbean steel band handgun onto an ATA flight bound for
were awarded damages of £1,116 each by 11 FEBRUARY: JAKARTA Hawaii in March 2007. Garratt was
a court in London. They had been off- Indra Setiawan, a former Director of Garuda actually escorting a handcuffed prisoner
loaded from a Ryanair jet in Cagliari, Indonesia, was jailed for 12 months for having at the time and had been given the gun by
Sardinia, before its departure for London falsified documents to enable the assassination by company President Eric Kindley.
on New Year’s Eve 2006, due to concerns arsenic poisoning of a human rights activist on a However, the gun was registered to
about their behaviour. Ryanair is to flight between Jakarta and Amsterdam neither man, nor were they authorised to
appeal the decision. in 2004. carry weapons on board aircraft.
6 FEBRUARY: LEICESTER, UK
A woman was sentenced to 12 months
imprisonment for being disruptive on an XL
Airways flight from Heraklion to East Midlands
Airport.
7 FEBRUARY: SAN FRANCISCO
Bracken, a United Airlines employee, was
arrested for infiltrating a firearm into the
restricted area of SFIA.
8 FEBRUARY: GUWAHATI
Manoj Tamuli, a member of the United
Liberation Front of Assam and his fiancée
were arrested and Tamuli later confessed
that four members of the group were to
have hijacked a flight to Pakistan via
Bhutan with weapons that had already been
infiltrated on board.
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