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1 FEBRUARY: ASPEN, COLORADO by hanging herself at the Taj Mahal Hotel. who was arrested a day later were airline
A 70-year old passenger on a United Airlines Dustonwa was found hanging from a shower baggage handlers who had allegedly used
flight from Denver, having been denied curtain in her bathroom; a suicide note their employee uniforms and identification
permission to use the toilets three times by addressed to the her mother was also found. cards to carry the duffel bag on board.
the crew, urinated into a cup instead. The
incident was reported to the authorities. The 16 FEBRUARY: NUERNBERGER, GERMANY 6 MARCH: LOS ANGELES
aircraft was in a lengthy holding pattern. Ana Miele, aged 2, managed to find her way Fadhel Al-Maliki, a 35-year old Iraqi
onto a flight to Egypt when she ran away from immigrant, was arrested after he admitted
11 FEBRUARY: MANILA her parents whilst the family was boarding a carrying a magnetic device concealed in his
Hans Jurgen Oskar von Naguschewski, 66, flight to Tunisia. A flight attendant found the rectum. He was selected for secondary
was so upset by repeated screening before runaway before take off, but she had already screening and triggered an alarm before
his flight to Frankfurt that he took his trousers sat down and fastened her seat belt. boarding a flight to Philadelphia; he elected to
off at the checkpoint and was subsequently tell screeners the cause of the alarm. His
arrested and charged with lasciviousness. 19 FEBRUARY: TEL AVIV suitcase had been loaded onto a different
A Swedish man threw his 8-year old son onto flight, which had already departed; the
11 FEBRUARY: HANOI a railway track beneath Terminal 3 at Tel authorities recommended that flight divert to
Nguyen Thi Ninh Giang, a Vietnam Airlines Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport before jumping Las Vegas, where it was searched.
flight attendant, was found to be carrying an himself. The two were returning to Sweden
unusually packaged box containing technical after a vacation in Israel that had started on 8 11 MARCH: KOLKATA
equipment, which later turned out to include February., but had missed their flight to An IndiGo flight bound for Delhi returned to
a controlled radioactive substance. She Vienna on 18 February. The father died of his Kolkata after Mehak Ahuja, a 25-year old
claimed she didn’t know what the box injuries, but the boy survived the fall. woman, sent an SMS message to her father
contained as it had been given to her by a indicating that there was a hijack underway.
friend to somebody in Vientiane. 20 FEBRUARY: KIRISHIMA, JAPAN Her father called the authorities who, in turn,
A man aged around 50 flashed what instructed the Captain to return to Kolkata.
11 FEBRUARY: JOHANNESBURG appeared to be a knife at a member of cabin Ahuja was allegedly disturbed by the
Jamie Robertson and Francois van Tronder, a crew of a Japan Airlines flight as he behaviour of some other passengers and,
same-sex couple, were told to “cover up” by crew disembarked the aircraft on arrival from having never flown before, panicked.
on a Comair flight from Cape Town as their Amami Oshima Island. Police searched the
allegedly amorous behaviour upset fellow terminal areas, but were unable to locate the 16 MARCH: LOS ANGELES
passengers. The couple subsequently brought a man. Two people who were escorting a deportee
sexual discrimination claim against the airline to were themselves arrested after police
the Human Rights Commission as they argued 22 FEBRUARY: LIMA discovered one of them was carrying a gun
that the degree of affection they afforded each A female passenger on a Taca Airlines flight without a permit.
other was no more than any heterosexual couple between Lima and Bogota overheard two
or siblings would do in public. Americans and two Israelis discussing 18 MARCH: AUCKLAND
explosives before take off and reported them Reports emerge that a passenger was
14 FEBRUARY: TORONTO to authorities. The flight was delayed. stopped from boarding a flight to Kerikeri as
Gondal Azhar, 35, is alleged to have crashed he had a rifle in his carry-on baggage. When
his taxi into the terminal building after an challenged to told officials that he had been
argument with another driver. He was able to carry it in the cabin of his previous
charged with dangerous operation of a motor flight from New Plymouth to Auckland.
vehicle, mischief endangering lives and
mischief over $5,000. 20 MARCH: TEL AVIV
An Israir aircraft on a practice flight, having
15 FEBRUARY: LAGOS failed to make contact with the control tower
A stowaway, aged 17, who had been hiding in the at Ben Gurion Airport, was close to being shot
wheel well of a cargo aircraft for more than 12 down by two F-16s as authorities feared the
hours was found when he climbed out in need of 5 MARCH: SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO aircraft may have been hijacked.
the toilet. He had paid approx. $150 to an airport Thomas Anthony Munoz, 22, was arrested
employee to smuggle him past security. when he got off a Delta flight from Orlando.
He was found to be carrying a duffel bag EDITORIAL NOTE: As this issue of ASI
15 FEBRUARY: MUMBAI containing 13 handguns, one assault rifle went to print slightly earlier than usual, March
A 50-year old Delta Airlines flight attendant, and 3.6kg of marijuana. He and his entries into Air Watch include incidents up to
Marlyn Dustonwa, allegedly committed suicide colleague, Zabdiel J. Santiago Balaguer, 22, 24 March 2007 rather than 31 March.
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