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UNRULY PASSENGERS
2 FEBRUARY: DELHI tried to bypass passport inspection and even to the floor before crew and passengers
Praveen Kumar, 35, was arrested and faces broke the queue barriers. eventually restrained him. The flight diverted
charges for having molested a 21-year old to Manchester.
Korean woman on a Spice Jet flight from 23 FEBRUARY: KALGOORLIE, AUSTRALIA
Bangalore to Delhi. A 30-year old passenger was arrested by 11 MARCH: BALTIMORE
police onboard a Qantas flight operating from Bryan Leon Spann was charged with
3 FEBRUARY: LOS ANGELES Perth after he repeatedly disobeyed crew assaulting two flight attendants on an
Howard L. Brookfield , 77, was charged with instructions. He allegedly repeatedly went to America West flight from Phoenix to BWI
inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl the business class cabin to confront a Thurgood Marshall International Airport. He
aboard an American Airlines flight. Member of Parliament. allegedly slapped and punched one male and
one female flight attendant and had to
5 FEBRUARY: SALT LAKE CITY 25 FEBRUARY: LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA restrained.
A Delta Air Lines flight en route from San A 47-year old passenger was arrested on
Francisco to JFK diverted as a result of a first arrival for having been aggressive to 11 MARCH: LOS ANGELES
class passenger refusing to obey crew crewmembers and thrown an object at one of Stacy Ferguson (a.k.a. Fergie
instructions. them on a Jetstar Airways flight from of the band Black Eyed Peas)
Brisbane. was denied boarding a Virgin
6 FEBRUARY: LONDON Atlantic flight to London as a
Reports emerge that Jade 27 FEBRUARY: CAPE TOWN result of her being excessively
Jagger, daughter of Mick A drunk passenger on a 1Time flight from intoxicated.
Jagger, allegedly caused Johannesburg was arrested upon arrival for
disruption on board a Virgin having become aggressive when denied 12 MARCH: SAN DIEGO
Atlantic flight from New York alcohol by crew. James Joseph Egan was arrested after he had
to London. She and her claimed, on board a Southwest Airlines flight
friends, under the influence 1 MARCH: FRANKFURT from Pittsburgh, that he had a bomb in his
of alcohol, started climbing An Air India flight bound for Delhi abandoned luggage; he had also threatened to assault
over seats, falling down in its take-off after two male passengers passengers. Egan was returning home from is
the aisles and were being grabbed a male passenger and then mother’s funeral.
rude about and to other passengers. It was molested a female flight attendant and two
also alleged that she kicked out at a flight other women on board. 15 MARCH: DENVER
attendant from under her duvet. Frederick W. Murphy, 59, was arrested for
3 MARCH: ABU DHABI interfering with the flight crew of a
9 FEBRUARY: WINNIPEG, CANADA Reports emerge that a passenger who had Continental Airlines flight operating from
Greg Bogden, 43, assaulted a flight attendant been smoking in the toilets of a Thomsonfly Newark to Los Angeles yet forced to divert.
on an Air Canada flight en route from Vancouver flight from Manchester to Goa became
to Toronto causing the pilot to divert. increasingly aggressive and started trying to 16 MARCH: SALT LAKECITY
bite a flight attendant. The situation A United Airlines flight diverted when Kenneth
13 FEBRUARY: JOHANNESBURG eventually necessitated restraint by crew R. Bullard attacked his own son and had to be
Jean-Luc Delarue, a French TV presenter, was assisted by some passengers. restrained by passengers and crew.
charged with battery, sexual assault and
disrupting a flight after the Air France flight 3 MARCH: WINNIPEG 21 MARCH: KOLKATA
from Paris landed. He allegedly insulted three David Gerard McAuliffe was arrested when a An Indian Airlines flight en route from Delhi to
flight attendants, bit one stewardess, British Airways flight operating from Phoenix Bangkok diverted after a Mexican passenger
grabbed the breasts and stomach of another to London was forced to divert due to his had to be restrained by air marshals for
and then started feeling up members of the allegedly drunken behaviour. fighting with other passengers and claiming
Algerian women’s soccer team onboard. to have a bomb on him.
5 MARCH: MINNEAPOLIS
18 FEBRUARY: ST. KITTS An off duty Northwest Airlines employee was 22 MARCH: MANCHESTER
Michael Morton was arrested on his arrival from arrested on arrival following allegations that A man was arrested as a result of his
London and was charged with disorderly he touched a female passenger on board. drunken behaviour on an Emirates flight
conduct. After disembarking Morton allegedly from Dubai during which one passenger
broke a bottle on the tarmac and started acting 6 MARCH: MANCHESTER was slightly injured and he allegedly
strangely, reportedly because he was desperate Bert Niepel, 51, a German passenger on a shouted out words and phrases including,
for a cigarette. By the time he reached Delta flight from Berlin to JFK disobeyed a “Allah”, “Bin Laden” and “I’m not a
Immigration controls, he had become abusive, flight attendant’s instructions and pushed her terrorist, I’m not a terrorist”.
6 April 2007 Aviationsecurityinternational
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