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THREATS
26 FEBRUARY: BRIGHTON, UK 1 FEBRUARY: LYON 23 FEBRUARY: BRUSSELS
Roger Cook, 51, was jailed for 8 months for An Air France flight en route from Paris to A bomb alert forced the evacuation of the
having told Gatwick security guards that Rome diverted as a result of a telephone airport.
there was a bomb in the terminal on 7 July bomb threat.
2006, being the first anniversary of the 27 FEBRUARY: COLOGNE
London bombings. 3 FEBRUARY: GABORONE, BOTSWANA A Ryanair flight en route from Lübeck to
A Zimbabwean man made a “joke” bomb London diverted after a Polish passenger
2 MARCH: GOTHENBURG threat against an Air Botswana flight claimed to have a bomb in his cabin baggage.
Six of the eight men charged with preparing to depart for Johannesburg
involvement in a heist at Landvetter resulting in flight cancellations and delays. 2 MARCH: MANILA
Airport last March were jailed for seven Dr Aileen Manalo was detained for making a
years; one received a two-month sentence 11 FEBRUARY: MOGADISHU joke about having a bomb in her baggage and
and the other acquitted. They had stolen A letter threatening to shoot down aircraft consequently missed her flight to Taipei.
currency from the cargo hold of an SAS operating at the airport was sent to both Juba
flight at gunpoint and left a suspect and Daalo Airlines, humanitarian aid 7 MARCH: MARGARITA ISLANDS, VENEZUELA
device on board causing the airport to be charities, and air charter companies by an The airport was closed for the second time in
closed for nine hours. organisation calling themselves the 48 hours, following the receipt of a bomb
Resistance Movement in the Land of the two threat against a Martinair flight.
2 MARCH: MELBOURNE Migrations. (See full text of letter on:
Rodney Petersen, 30, was jailed for two years www.redorbit.com/news/business/836605/ 8 MARCH: NAWABSHAH
and eight months after pleading guilty to 50 somali_islamists_threaten_to_shoot_down_a A Shaheen Airlines flight operating from
counts of stealing head and pubic hair from ll_planes_using_mogadishu/index.html) Multan to Karachi diverted following the
brushes and underpants in women’s receipt of a bomb threat.
luggage. Peterson delivered lost or delayed 14 FEBRUARY: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
baggage to Qantas passengers and was Dinh Dinh Dai, 45, was arrested for telling a 20 MARCH: MOSCOW
found to have opened the baggage en route, flight attendant that he had a grenade in his A bomb threat was received relating to a flight
taken hair samples and put them in plastic hand baggage before his Vietnam Airlines from Larnaca to Moscow.
bags, recording the owner’s personal details flight departed for Hanoi.
in an exercise book. 21 MARCH: BEIJING
Huang Lushen, 62, claimed to be carrying a
2 MARCH: DENVER bomb in his luggage while boarding a
James Jay Bobo, 44, was put on five years of Shenzhen Airlines plane.
probation, ordered to reimburse United
Airlines $5,840, take alcohol counselling and 22 MARCH: JOHANNESBURG
continue mental health treatment. In August A passenger travelling on a Mango Airlines
last year his behaviour caused the airline to flight to Durban told a flight attendant that he
divert to Denver whilst en route from Chicago had an explosive device on him before the
to Salt Lake City. aircraft departed.
15 FEBRUARY: LUTON, UK
4 MARCH: LONDON A controlled explosion was carried out on a 22 MARCH: CAPE TOWN
Azharul Haque was jailed for 18 months for vehicle after an anonymous caller claimed A passenger who was boarding a Mango flight
having made a “prank” call, stating that there that a car bomb had been left close to the to Johannesburg was arrested having told a
was a bomb at Heathrow. terminal building. flight attendant that he was carrying an
explosive device.
9 MARCH: SINGAPORE 18 FEBRUARY: CHENNAI
Eric Lee Kok Yian was placed on two years An anonymous bomb threat was made to the 23 MARCH: OAKLAND
probation for a bomb threat he made as he police control room regarding the airport and A telephone bomb threat resulted in
boarded a Singapore Airlines flight to Beijing an airline. Reports indicate that the caller passengers being evacuated from an Alaska
last April. may have been a child. Airlines flight bound for Seattle.
9 MARCH: YEKATERINBURG 21 FEBRUARY: MANILA 23 MARCH: CHARLOTTE
A policeman was jailed for 21 months for Michel Brion, 66, allegedly told crew there A passenger on a U.S. Airways flight from New
telephoning a bomb threat through to the was a bomb in his baggage when he boarded Orleans to Charlotte claimed he had smallpox
airport in order to enable his superior’s his Cebu Pacific flight to Bangkok. The flight resulting in the flight and its passengers
friends to make their flight. was evacuated and Brion was arrested. being quarantined on arrival.
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