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15 FEBRUARY: NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA 1 FEBRUARY: GREAT FALLS
Mohamed Abderraman, 32, hijacked an Air Mauritania Danny R. Reed II, 32, pleaded guilty to
flight en route from Nouakchott to Gran Canaria, Spain, simple assault and was sentenced to
armed with two handguns. Abderraman wanted the pilot probation following an incident in January on
to continue to France where he intended claiming board a United Express flight from Denver to
asylum, but was told that there was insufficient fuel on Great Falls.
board. The pilot, Captain Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine,
elected to land in Gran Canaria. On approach he told the 15 FEBRUARY: NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
passengers in French, realising that Abderraman didn’t Roy Youngblood Jr., a 52 year-old retired
speak the language, that he was going to brake hard and then speed up again in order to throw Marine, was sentenced to ten days in jail for
Abderraman, who was standing in the aisle, off his feet and requested that male passengers groping a passenger and attacking a flight
then jump on him. The ploy worked and, on landing, Abderraman dropped one gun and fell; attendant on a Southwest flight from
flight attendants threw boiling water in his face and on his chest and about 10 passengers Jacksonville. Youngblood is said to have
restrained him. tried to chat up the woman seated next to
him, asked her to come stay at his hotel and
then started kissing her hand. When she
pulled away he grabbed her buttocks. A
SABOTAGE & ATTACKS
flight attendant ordered Youngblood to the
back of the plane where he tried to grope
3 FEBRUARY: CEBU, PHILIPPINES 6 MARCH: FRANKFURT her. He was eventually restrained by five
Two armed men held up staff members at the
A Lufthansa flight set to depart for Tehran was male passengers.
city office of Asian Spirit Airlines and robbed
delayed following a bomb threat telephoned
the company of P120,000 (approx. $2500).
through to the airline’s call centre in Dublin. 15 FEBRUARY: FORT SMITH
Unconfirmed reports indicate that explosive Michael Terrell Jackson, 30, was jailed for six
5 FEBRUARY: LAGOS
experts of the Federal Police found and months followed by three years of supervised
The new radar system at the airport was
defused two time-delay bombs, one inside the release, starting with six months of home
sabotaged.
aircraft’s door and another planted in one of detention for having telephoned bomb
the engine compartments. A number of threats to Fort Smith Airport last August.
6 FEBRUARY: RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN
Frankfurt Airport staff have been arrested. Jackson had made the threats in order to
A suicide bomber detonated his device in a
stop his wife from leaving on a flight with
parking area at the international airport,
8 MARCH: BAGHDAD their two children.
wounding two police officers and killing
Four mortar rounds hit close to the Iraqi
himself.
Airways headquarters, located near the 16 FEBRUARY: TAMPA
terminal building of the international airport. Ronald Evan Mays, 46, was found guilty of
abusive sexual contact with a child, assault
20 MARCH: POZNAN, POLAND and obstruction of justice. This followed an
A man was arrested after he was photo- incident on board a Southwest flight from
graphed posing beside a Eurolot ATR which Tampa to Nashville last June, during which
had been sprayed with graffiti at Poznan- Mays sexually touched an 8-year old girl sitting
Lawica Airport. next to him.
10 FEBRUARY: MOGADISHU
19 FEBRUARY: MUMBAI
Three mortars were fired at the airport and
Lisa Robertson, a Qantas
exploded inside the perimeter fence.
flight attendant, was fired
after it emerged that she
22 FEBRUARY: MOGADISHU
had unprotected sex with
Two mortar rounds exploded near the runway
actor Ralph
at the international airport as African Union
Fiennes on a
peacekeepers were targeted by extremists.
flight from
23 MARCH: MOGADISHU Darwin to
26 FEBRUARY: BATTICALOA, SRI LANKA
A Belarus registered Illyushin-76 aircraft Mumbai on 24 January. It was
The US and Italian ambassadors to Sri Lanka
carrying 11 people aiding African also embarrassing for Fiennes
suffered minor injuries when their helicopters
peacekeepers in Mogadishu burst into flames as he was travelling to India to
were targeted on the ground by mortars fired
and crashed, having been had been hit by a give a speech about AIDS and
by Tamil Tigers.
missile on take-off. safe sex.
4 April 2007 Aviationsecurityinternational
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