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OCTOBER 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 5 32 22 SABOTAGE 30 AUGUST: BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN 5 AUGUST: GUANGZHOU, CHINA & ATTACKS Around 12 gunmen stormed Jewani Airport Nine crewmembers of Shenzhen in southwest Pakistan before dawn, killing Airlines were awarded a total of 2.5 5 AUGUST: ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS an engineer and abducting another. The million yuan (c. $400,000) after restraining A 38-year old woman allegedly attempted second man’s body was found in nearby a passenger and preventing an arson to steal a private jet, owned by a Hong mountains later that day. The airport’s radar attack mid-flight on 26th July. Taizhou Kong bank, from St Louis Downtown system was also destroyed. Airport was temporarily shut down Airport in Sauget. She had convinced pending investigations into security security guards that she worked for the 3 SEPTEMBER: GWADAR, PAKISTAN measures that allowed the passenger, Zhai airport, boarded the plane and attempted Two rockets were launched near Gwadar Jinshun, to board the flight with a knife, to start the engines despite having no Airport by unknown perpetrators. The lighter and gasoline. flying experience. She was challenged when rockets landed near a checkpoint but no- workers realised she was trying to start the one was injured. There were no claims of engines with the steps down; she told them responsibility. she wanted to fly to China. The woman has a previous history of mental illness but may 4 SEPTEMBER: DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN face burglary and trespassing charges once A military post near Dushanbe International she has been psychiatrically examined. Airport was attacked by gunmen who stole weapons and ammunition. The airport is not thought to have been affected.
17 SEPTEMBER: WACO, TEXAS Robert 23 AUGUST: MANILA, PHILIPPINES Edward Morrell II Alex John Pagan was denied entry to the drove through a Philippines when he refused to present his locked gate at passport and ticket to immigration. The Waco airport and passenger is believed to have been drunk attempted to steal when his flight from Thailand landed at a Learjet. He was Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Pagan 15 AUGUST: CAIRO, EGYPT subdued by police attempted to leave the airport but was Pro-Muslim Brotherhood activists hacked using a Taser. He arrested and promptly deported back to into the website of Cairo airport, leaving was taken into Thailand. a message in English, Arabic, and Turkish custody upon his subsequent release from condemning the regime of President Abdel hospital, where he had been taken for a 24 AUGUST: BEIJING, CHINA Fattah el-Sisi. mental health evaluation. The jet’s owners A woman known only as Ms Zhao, said decided against taking action, but police to be in her 40s, was stopped at Beijing 28 AUGUST: JULIACA, PERU charged Morrell with resisting arrest, and he Capital International Airport for attempting A band of 15 faces further possible charges of damage to to carry a £120 bottle of Rémy Martin XO robbers, in two the gate. Excellence onto a flight in her handbag. white vans, Faced with the decision to throw it away or crashed through 18 SEPTEMBER: TRIPOLI, LIBYA drink it, she decided to consume the entire the security fence Three security personnel were killed by bottle, resulting in her missing her flight and at Inca Manco militants in an attack on a prison located at requiring medical care. Capac Airport in the Mitiga International Airport. An airport Juliaca and security official said that the assailants were 26 AUGUST: ISRAEL headed towards attempting to free detainees being held Mark Dimshitz, a plane that was in the process of being there, adding that eight of the attackers 88, who attempted to loaded with $2.4 million of currency and had also been killed. ISIS later claimed hijack a Soviet aircraft $4.8 million worth of gold. Distracting the responsibility for the attack. in 1970, passed away. Prosegur security guards by firing guns and Dimshitz had been a letting off tear gas, the culprits succeeded Jewish pilot in the in emptying the armoured vehicles of their INCIDENTS USSR and, in 1970, contents and making off in a getaway car. was one of the Within a few hours of the incident, police organisers of made several arrests and recovered 30kg of 1 AUGUST: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA ‘Operation Wedding’ the gold and $300,000 cash but the A section of the Lindbergh Terminal at – the hijacking of an aircraft by 16 remaining loot was still unaccounted for. It Minneapolis-St.Paul Airport was evacuated Refuseniks in order to escape to the West is believed that the attack, named in Peru as when a bag abandoned on scales at an and highlight the plight of Soviet Jewry. The the ‘Crime of the Century’, was planned in airline ticket counter tested positive for hijack failed, Dimshitz was arrested, charged Bolivia and led by Miguel Angel Perez, explosives. No devices were found and the with treason, and narrowly avoided the nicknamed ‘the Jaguar’. terminal reopened 40 minutes later. death sentence.
4 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED October 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 30 AUGUST: MUMBAI, INDIA 7 SEPTEMBER: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 18 SEPTEMBER: BEEF ISLAND, Neeraj Kumar was allegedly prevented The pilot of a Norwegian Airlines flight BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS from flying on board an IndiGo flight from Paris to Stockholm made an unusual A ruckus between a LIAT airline agent and a from Mumbai to Guwahati when it announcement on landing; he used the tourist at Terrence B. Lettsome International was discovered he had been taking intercom to, according to one passenger, Airport was described as an isolated incident photographs of a female member of staff announce that, "We'd like to send our best by the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board. without her consent. When confronted wishes of happy reproduction to the couple The agent had told the passenger that her and asked to delete the pictures, Kumar that ventured into the bathroom earlier on." flight to Puerto Rico had departed, causing became aggressive and was banned an argument which the passenger then from flying. The passenger subsequently 8-9 SEPTEMBER: KAITAIA, NEW ZEALAND tried to record on her mobile phone. The apologised to the airline and the member A two-day occupation of Kaitaia Airport, agent is reported to have tried to seize the of staff, and has since flown with IndiGo on arising from a protest over Maori land rights, phone, initiating a fight which resulted in the a different flight. ended after trespass orders were served by passenger requiring hospital treatment. The Northland Police. Many demonstrators chose LIAT agent was suspended from duty. 4 SEPTEMBER: BANGKOK, THAILAND to leave voluntarily but five – one woman and A large group of Chinese tourists created four men - were arrested. 19 SEPTEMBER: CARDIFF, WALES a disturbance after an Orient Thai flight Irish rugby fans travelling to watch their to Chongqing was delayed for ten hours. team play in Cardiff tricked the airport Despite the airline arranging hotel rooms announcer into putting out calls for Michael for the travellers, they rejected the Collins (an Irish revolutionary leader), compensation and put forward their own Eamon de Valera (a former President of demands for reimbursement. 30 passengers Ireland), and Padraig Pearse (a leader of the were later detained, and 33 blacklisted Easter Rising 1916) over the public address by Chinese tourist authorities due to system. The fans had told airport staff they ‘uncivilised behaviour’. had become separated from their ‘friends’ and were unable to contact them. 5 SEPTEMBER: SHANGHAI, CHINA Hong Kong-Canadian actor and musician Edison Chen was involved in a fight with a fellow traveller, whom he accused of jumping the queue at the check-in counter. Both men were taken 9 SEPTEMBER: LAGOS, NIGERIA to Hongqaio International Airport’s police A 25-year old stowaway was found inside Michael Collins Eamon de Valera Padraig Pearse station but no charges were filed. the tyre compartment of a Medview Airlines plane bound for Accra. 21 SEPTEMBER: GUANGZHOU, CHINA Xiaoyun, a university student, hid a speaker 12 SEPTEMBER: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS in her suitcase, playing the looped message The corpse of a stowaway was found in the “Please do not open me! I’m just normal landing gear of a cargo plane at Schiphol luggage!” in a bid to protect its contents Airport. A border police spokesman said – clothing and cosmetics – from being a forensic investigation was ongoing but damaged by baggage handlers. declined to reveal which African country the flight had departed from. 21 SEPTEMBER: ORLANDO, FLORIDA Television writer and transgender woman 12 SEPTEMBER: ANDOAS, PERU Shadi Petosky tweeted her humiliation Indigenous protestors, with the and anger after being held by the 6 SEPTEMBER: ISRAEL Quechua Community Assembly in Cuenca del Transportation Security Administration due Heroic former El Al pilot, Uriel Pastaza, fighting plans for a privatisation of oil to an advanced imaging technology system Cohen, 90, died. In 1970, Cohen exploration in Peru, occupied an airport in the picking up an ‘anomaly’ and therefore managed to neutralise three terrorists north of the country in an attempt to send a resulting in her being classed as a attempting to blow up a bus carrying powerful message to President Humala. Tedy suspicious individual; the anomaly was her Israeli passengers to their plane in Guerra, the leader of the protests, claimed the penis. Petosky’s tweets claimed she was Munich. El Al made a statement: "The government gave away the oil exploitation asked to go through the scanner a second El Al family bows its head at the passing license without proper consultation with those time ‘as a man’, and was asked what sex of Uriel Cohen, who acted with courage who live in the affected area. she was. She missed her flight as a result and determination to keep terrorists from and, despite American Airlines telling her hurting El Al passengers, and bravely she would receive a free First Class ticket, subdued a terrorist on an El Al flight." Petosky’s credit card was allegedly still charged for the new flight.
October 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 22 SEPTEMBER: LARNACA, CYPRUS UNRULY 15 AUGUST: NANTONG, CHINA Two German women were reported to PASSENGERS A child was have been living at Larnaca International permitted to Airport since being expelled from Israel 3 AUGUST: JAIPUR, INDIA relieve himself in at the expiry of their permit to stay in Ganesh Matadheen, 24, was arrested for the aisle of a August 2014. The two women have drunk and disorderly behaviour on a flight West Air flight, en been offered the chance to return to from Muscat to Jaipur. route from Germany but insist on staying in situ. The Zhengzhou to city’s Chief of Police, Philippos Vrontos, 5 AUGUST: ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK, SWEDEN Nantong, only a has said there is no legal basis for A Nextjet passenger in his 50s locked few minutes removing them and, as EU citizens, they himself into a toilet several minutes before before landing. The family disembarked cannot be deported. The pair, who find the aircraft, en route to Örnsköldsvik from leaving the ground sanitation crew to clean accommodation in abandoned cars in the Stockholm was due to land. The passenger up the mess. airport’s parking lots and who are said to refused to return to his seat, resulting in the occasionally enter the terminal to make pilot forcing the toilet door open with an 15 AUGUST: RENO, NEVADA use of the toilet facilities, state that they axe. No arrests were made. Musician Jason Derulo, 25, was are only interested in a return to Israel. escorted off a flight from Reno to Los 6 AUGUST: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Angeles before take-off. The R&B singer’s 24 SEPTEMBER: HONG KONG Adam Kealing, 31, was arrested at bodyguard and entourage, who had been A picture Chicago O’Hare Airport after punching prevented from boarding the flight due uploaded a fellow passenger on board a United to aggressive behaviour towards airport onto Airlines aircraft moments before it was security staff, forced their way onto the Facebook due to take off. Kealing resisted arrest aircraft, resulting in Derulo and his group showing a once back in the terminal and proceeded being escorted off the plane. They rented a woman in the to punch a police officer. He faced private jet to reach their destination. uniform of a charges of battery, resisting arrest and Dragonair other misdemeanours. stewardess in a provocative pose has gone viral, prompting an investigation into the woman’s identity by the airline.
30 SEPTEMBER: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Three bags left unattended by a passenger at Richmond International Airport were destroyed by controlled 16 AUGUST: IBIZA, SPAIN explosion. The passenger, whose A man on board a flight from Newcastle to behaviour was noted as being erratic Ibiza allegedly had half his ear bitten off by and agitated, had stripped down to his another passenger shortly before landing. underwear at the ticket counter before The victim received medical treatment. being taken into custody for a mental health evaluation. 16 AUGUST: NANJING, CHINA 7 AUGUST: HONOLULU, HAWAII A Chinese 30 SEPTEMBER: RICHMOND, LONDON, UK Delta Air Lines passenger Eric Schneider, woman traveling Richmond Council announced they are 23, threatened to kill other passengers, with her daughter taking legal action against the Civil assaulted a flight attendant and tore down and a friend on a Aviation Authority, which it accuses of a galley curtain during a flight to Maui. Shenzhen Airlines failing to act over the issue of stowaways. He was reported to have been intoxicated flight to It comes after a body, believed to be that and had been consuming tequila cocktails. Guangzhou of a stowaway, was discovered on a roof Flight attendants restrained Schneider and allegedly of an office building in June. he was arrested upon landing. encouraged her child to defecate 11 AUGUST: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA on the floor of A man, 20, allegedly assaulted a 69-year-old the plane, woman seated beside him on a WestJet despite the two flight from Calgary to Halifax. The woman, toilets being who was awake during the incident, unoccupied and the aircraft still being on notified flight attendants and the man was the ground. The woman had apparently immediately removed to another seat until complained to a flight attendant that the the plane landed in Halifax. toilets were too small. She was made to clean up the mess herself. 14 AUGUST: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH A woman in her 80s was escorted off 18 AUGUST: LONDON GATWICK, UK a United Express plane by police after A man, 48, was arrested for homophobic refusing to place her aggressive dog into a abuse of cabin crew and threatening pet carrier. No arrest were made. behaviour on a flight from Split, Croatia.
6 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED October 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 20 AUGUST: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 26 AUGUST: JFK, NEW YORK 30 AUGUST: SOFIA, BULGARIA A male passenger, traveling with a young boy, A serious incident, calling into question the A Thomas Cook flight, en route from had to be restrained on an Emirates flight passenger screening processes at Norman Newcastle, UK to Dalaman, Turkey, from Dubai to Melbourne after repeatedly Manley International Airport in Jamaica, was forced to divert to Sofia when punching a female flight attendant in the occurred on a JetBlue flight from Jamaica to a woman became aggressive and face. He had requested space to lie down New York. A dispute between two women threatened to smash one of the and became agitated when the flight was triggered when Jean Ballentine, 61, aircraft’s windows. attendant told him it wasn’t possible. The tried to climb over Mary Canady, 52, in an flight attendant walked away when the man attempt to get out quickly, whilst the aircraft 31 AUGUST: HYDERABAD, INDIA became aggressive, but he followed her and was taxiing to the gate on arrival. Tempers Pranav Agarwal, 21, allegedly harassed allegedly attacked her. The flight attendant raised, Ballentine then slashed Canady with a female flight attendant on board did not suffer injury and the suspect will not an eyebrow razor; Canady responded by an Indigo flight from Bengaluru to be charged due to personal circumstances. spraying her with pepper spray. Another Hyderabad. The student allegedly man was also cut by the knife and seven touched the crewmember and filmed 23 AUGUST: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES passengers had to be treated due to the her on his mobile phone. The flight Ahmad Barghouthy, 27, claimed he was impact of the pepper spray. attendant complained and police assaulted on his Emirates flight from Beirut to arrested Agarwal upon landing in Dubai and accused cabin crew of not assisting 28 AUGUST: DENVER, COLORADO Hyderabad. him. The alleged attack took place following Model Zaneta an argument over seating arrangements. Hucikova, 34, 2 SEPTEMBER: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY became aggressive A man, said to be in his 40s, became on board a Condor aggressive during an 11-hour United flight when Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Newark. attendants He was restrained by crew and an air attempted to marshal. confiscate a cat she had snuck into the 4 SEPTEMBER: FARO, PORTUGAL cabin with her. The A group of 14 male passengers caused a flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt was flight from Glasgow to Tenerife to divert escorted by fighter jets and diverted to to Portugal due to their aggressive and Denver where Hucikova was arrested and verbally abusive behaviour. Jet2.com held on suspicion of visa violation. Her cat have banned the men from flying with was also held in federal custody. them permanently.
October 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 4 SEPTEMBER: LONDON, UK 19 SEPTEMBER: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 27 SEPTEMBER: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS Actor Enrique Gil A drunken passenger was arrested and James Gray mistook an exit door for was reportedly removed from a Belfast-bound Flybe that of the toilet on a KLM flight from involved in a flight before take-off after he refused to Edinburgh to Amsterdam. He was drunken altercation disembark voluntarily. restrained by the crew. Gray was later with fellow stars fined €600 (c. £430), banned from flying Luis Manzano, Jessy 21 SEPTEMBER: NAIROBI, KENYA KLM for five years, and forced to return to Mendiola and his A group of Zimbabwean athletes were Scotland with a different airline. girlfriend, Liza arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Soberano, on board Airport, on their way home from the African 30 SEPTEMBER: LONDON GATWICK, UK a flight to London. Games in the Republic of Congo, after a Two passengers were accused of secretly fight broke out within the team. drinking duty-free on board an Aurigny 6 SEPTEMBER: MUMBAI, INDIA flight from Guernsey to Gatwick. The A retired colonel, Balakrishnan Menon, 22 SEPTEMBER: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA airline also alleged that one of the 78, was arrested for repeatedly touching a Rapper Azealia Banks denied that she passengers made advances to a female female crewmember on board a flight from is a homophobe, despite allegedly using crewmember. No arrests were made. Kozhikode to Mumbai. He was arrested homophobic and abusive language towards upon landing and later released on bail of a male flight attendant during an altercation 2 OCTOBER: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA Rs 15,000. on a Delta Airlines flight. Nine Russian athletes heading for the Military World Games in Mungyeong, South 8 SEPTEMBER: HONG KONG Korea were deported before leaving the A 45-year old Swiss man was arrested in airport after causing a drunken commotion Hong Kong following three allegations on board their inbound Korean Air flight of indecent assault towards three flight from Moscow. attendants on board a Cathay Pacific flight from Switzerland to Hong Kong. JUDGEMENTS 11 SEPTEMBER: PORTLAND, OREGON & ARRESTS Jeff Rubin, 27, allegedly urinated on fellow 4 AUGUST: BAGHDAD, IRAQ passengers and A member of the IS terrorist group, their luggage on a Mohammed Humad Khlefani, was arrested JetBlue flight from 24 SEPTEMBER: SUNSHINE COAST, AUSTRALIA along with his son and a security officer Anchorage to A man refused to stop smoking an at Baghdad International Airport. The Portland. Rubin is e-cigarette on board a Jetstar flight from security officer cooperated with Khlefani, reported to have Sydney to Sunshine Coast. He was arrested providing him access to the airport with stood up, tried to on arrival. the intention of setting fire to an Iraqi urinate in the crack between the seats in Airways aircraft scheduled to fly to Erbil. front of him, and then fallen back, 24 SEPTEMBER: HONOLULU, HAWAII The trio were arrested before any damage spraying other people with urine. Kristin could be done. Sharp, a real 14 SEPTEMBER: INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA estate agent, was 6 AUGUST: DENVER, COLORADO Fellow passengers accused of Marc Rehmar, 58, was arrested were called upon exposing her and charged with hindering and to help restrain a breasts on a flight endangering public transportation. Chicago woman on from Las Vegas to Upon arriving late for his flight to Ohio, an American Honolulu, as well Rehmar discovered that the aircraft Airlines flight en as smoking and was in the process of leaving the gate. route from Miami throwing a soda Determined to board, he ran through to Chicago. Daniela can at a flight security, forcibly opened a locked Velez-Reyes, 25, attendant, all emergency exit and ran ahead of the allegedly kissed a whilst in an pushback vehicle towing the aircraft, flight attendant before punching her in the intoxicated state. forcing it to stop. The man, desperate face, following previous erratic behaviour. to attend his high school reunion, The flight diverted to Indianapolis. 26 SEPTEMBER: BOISE, IDAHO demanded to board the plane. Daniel T. 16 SEPTEMBER: AHMEDABAD, INDIA McHugh, 42, allegedly 10 AUGUST: ROCKHAMPTON, QUEENSLAND Rahul Grover allegedly molested a flight made verbal threats Timothy Desmond Clifton Croft, 39, attendant on an IndiGo flight en route to towards flight was convicted of a number of charges Goa, resulting in the the aircraft diverting to attendants and fellow following his behaviour on board a flight Ahmedabad. passengers whilst from Brisbane in April. According to the intoxicated on a prosecutor, the single father of three 17 SEPTEMBER: LONDON GATWICK, UK Southwest Airlines drunkenly rubbed a flight attendant’s Six women, heading off for a hen weekend flight en route from arm, saying “hello gorgeous”. He later in Spain, had to be removed from an Denver to Boise. McHugh had only been became abusive when he was escorted by easyJet flight to Barcelona prior to take-off allowed to board the flight once he had police off the aircraft. Croft has been fined after the captain declared them to be too guaranteed not to drink on board, such was thousands of dollars and placed on two drunk to fly. his intoxicated state at the boarding gate. years’ probation.
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22 AUGUST: LUNGI, SIERRA LEONE Paul James Shepard, a British mercenary, was arrested together with Foday Ahmed Yumkella and seven other Sierra Leoneans and later charged with involvement in a planning a terrorist incident at Lungi Airport.
24 AUGUST: ABUJA, NIGERIA A 14-year-old boy, Sulaiymon Abdulraman, 1 SEPTEMBER: USA was arrested at Nnamdi Azikiwe Charee Stanley, 40, filed a International Airport and revealed, under discrimination complaint against interrogation, that he had been sent to ExpressJet, claiming unfair dismissal spy on the airport’s processes by Boko from her job as a flight attendant. Haram. The Department of State Service Stanley had converted to Islam two later announced the discovery of a plot by years ago and could therefore no Boko Haram terrorists to set off a bomb at longer serve alcoholic beverages the airport. to passengers. Over the last two 3 SEPTEMBER: DES MOINES, IOWA years, she and the airline had made Muhammad Asif Chaudhry, 57, is being 24 AUGUST: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA arrangements with her colleagues, sued for inappropriately touching a Catholic priest, Marcelo De Jesumaria, 46, which meant that any passengers young female passenger whilst she was was sentenced to one year in prison for requesting alcohol would be served flying unescorted from New York to Iowa sexually molesting a woman asleep in the by another flight attendant, which in July. The man is said to have moved seat next to him aboard a US Airways flight had worked well until one of Stanley’s from his reserved seat to an unoccupied to Los Angeles in May. colleagues filed a complaint. seat next to the girl, who awoke to find
10 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED October 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational him touching her with his foot and hand. 9 SEPTEMBER: DICKINSON, NORTH DAKOTA 18 SEPTEMBER: BIRMINGHAM, UK The girl alerted a flight attendant, who 22 year-old flight attendant Justin Cox- Ibrar Zada, 25, moved her to a seat in the first class Sever was charged with two felony counts was found guilty cabin. Police met the aircraft during a relating to interfering with the navigation of using stopover in Chicago and arrested the of an aircraft and communicating false threatening, man, who denies charges. The girl’s information which endangered the safety abusive or parents are suing both Chaudhry and of an aircraft. Cox-Sever admitted to insulting words American Airlines, claiming the airline planting a suspicious bag on board a towards two flight should have monitored the young Skywest/Delta flight from Minneapolis on attendants on a passenger more closely. 9th September, the presence of which Thomson flight caused an emergency landing. He also from Hurghada, 8 SEPTEMBER: OTTAWA, CANADA admitted to fabricating a similar incident Egypt, after the Three men were arrested after at on 7th July, when he claimed to find a flight ran out of Halal food. He was ordered least two taxis were vandalised in the handwritten bomb threat on the lavatory to pay £1,400 for the March incident. latest flashpoint of an ongoing labour wall of an American Airlines flight from dispute. The dispute arose between taxi Charlottesville to Chicago. 19 SEPTEMBER: BARCELONA, SPAIN drivers and their dispatcher, Coventry A stowaway who had managed to board Connections, over an increase in fees 11 SEPTEMBER: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS a Norwegian Airlines flight to London for the exclusive right to pick up at the Brian Howard, 37, was sentenced to twelve Gatwick, despite not having sufficient airport. Drivers who continue to pick up and a half years in jail and ordered to pay documentation, was removed from the have said they believe their vehicles are $4.5m in damages after he was convicted plane by armed police before take-off. being targeted in retaliation. of cutting cables at, and setting fire to, a major Air Traffic Control facility in Aurora in 20 SEPTEMBER: DES MOINES, IOWA September 2014. Brian Jerome White, 25, allegedly 15 SEPTEMBER: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA punched a police Khalid Alanazi pleaded guilty to assaulting officer who was a flight attendant and a fellow traveller arresting him on on board an Etihad flight from Abu suspicion of Dhabi after being told he was forbidden trespassing in the from smoking. He is also reported to MidAmerican Jet have thrown a bottle of water at a flight Center hanger at attendant and hit a passenger on her Des Moines head and neck. International Airport.
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October 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 11 25 SEPTEMBER: CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA THREATS Hanback Chae, a 28-year-old South Korean man who had doused himself in petrol at Cairns Airport and threatened to 12 AUGUST: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK self-immolate on 10th July, was sentenced A 15-year-old Norwegian male of Middle- to 18 months in jail, to be suspended after Eastern descent staged a bomb-scare as a three months. prank at Copenhagen Airport in order to film a video, which he, and a friend, hoped 27 SEPTEMBER: MIDDLE EAST to later post on Youtube. He was later It was reported that a flight attendant, sentenced to 30 days in prison, subsequent who admitted to seducing passengers deportation and given a six-year ban from into sex on long-haul flights in an attempt entering Denmark. to make money, had been sacked by her employer. She had been found in the 24 AUGUST: MERIDA, MEXICO toilet of one aircraft with a passenger A phone call was received by authorities at who she had charged $2000 for the Merida Airport claiming that an explosive encounter. The woman, who worked for device had been planted on an Interjet an undisclosed airline, reportedly made aircraft bound for Merida from Mexico City. more than $1m over two years. A search was conducted but no devices were detected, and the plane was delayed 1 OCTOBER: TURIN, ITALY by only a few minutes. All passengers and luggage were evacuated from an Alitalia plane at 7 SEPTEMBER: BANGALORE, INDIA Caselle Airport after an Italian man Gokul Macheri, attempted to delay his flight by claiming 34, was arrested and there was a bomb on board. He was accused of making two subsequently arrested upon arriving at hoax bomb calls to the airport. Kempegowda and Delhi airports over the 1 OCTOBER: RISHON L’ZION, ISRAEL weekend in an attempt The Israeli Airport Authority and Israir to frame the husband of a love interest were ordered to pay compensation, as a terrorist. totalling approx. $27,000, to five Arab Israeli passengers after one, Ayoub Abu 9 SEPTEMBER: BAYAN LEPAS, MALAYSIA Sbeit (see pic), was asked to leave a A 61-year-old Indonesian man was arrested flight from Tel Aviv to Eilat in August after threatening to bomb a plane at Penang 2012. The airline invoked a security International Airport. His threats came after procedure which they claimed bans he was told that he was carrying excess groups of five or more members of a baggage. District Police also suspect him of minority group from any one flight. Abu having used a fake passport. Sbeit refused to disembark and, after a one hour delay, the Israir flight to Eilat 11 SEPTEMBER: FRANKFURT, GERMANY departed with all five group members A United Airlines flight was forced to make a on board. The Rishon L’Zion Magistrate’s swift return to the airport after a bomb threat. Court ruled the procedure to be both Following a search of the plane, nothing was discriminatory and fictional, claiming found and nobody was detained. Israir actually wanted the seat for a celebrity passenger. 11 SEPTEMBER: DUBLIN, EIRE The airport was the subject of a bomb threat.
12 SEPTEMBER: DUBLIN, EIRE An Aer Lingus flight from Brussels was given priority to land after flight crew discovered a note in the toilet claiming a bomb was on board. However, nothing suspicious was found and the incident was declared a hoax.
28 SEPTEMBER: MUMBAI, INDIA Security was stepped up at Mumbai Airport following a call by a man who claimed to have heard a group plotting a terrorist attack there. The caller said that they had said that, “Five vehicles will be blown up between 9am and 10am on Tuesday near the domestic terminal, international terminal and the Taj Hotel. The impact might be bigger than the 26/11 terror strike.” The call was later found to be a hoax.
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AUGUST 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 4 28 17 HIJACK UNRULY 3 JUNE: USA PASSENGERS Reports emerge that R&B star Chris Brown, 26, allegedly verbally abused a 7 JUNE: ISTANBUL, TURKEY 27 MAY: PORTLAND, OREGON flight attendant on board a private jet, It must surely be one of the most bizarre A mixture of Xanax and alcohol was blowing marijuana smoke into her face. reasons ever recorded for hijacking a allegedly the reason for MTV star Matthew Brown denies the accusations, saying he flight. Zafer Alcan, a 54-year-old author Pritchard, 42, stripping off on board a had been smoking but did extinguish and retired journalist, approached Turkish private jet en the cigarette when asked to; his Airlines’ flight attendant Esra Engin, as his route from colleague, however, was allegedly more flight from Ankara to Istanbul began its Amsterdam argumentative and had to be removed descent to Ataturk Airport, and told her to Portland. from the aircraft. that he had placed several bombs at various He then locations on the flight and that she was to proceeded 4 JUNE: SOFIA, BULGARIA tell the pilot to fly to Bucharest, Romania. to urinate Six passengers on board a Monarch The Captain opted to land in Istanbul in the aisle, flight en route from Birmingham, UK, regardless and Alcan was arrested and including to Dalaman, Turkey, were arrested after charged with hijacking. Alcan later claimed on Rocky- an emergency landing in Sofia due to that he had written six books, four of which star Dolph their unruly behaviour. The suspects had already been published but two of Lundgren, to allegedly drank their own alcohol, smoked which were awaiting publication; he claimed whom he later in the toilets and assaulted female that he couldn’t find the support he needed apologised crewmembers. for their publication at a printing house in online. Baku, Azerbaijan, and that his actions were 5 JUNE: HONG KONG designed to draw attention to himself so 28 MAY: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Lu Huaqian, 30, was arrested for assaulting people would hear of his books! A Virgin America plane, preparing to a flight attendant on board a Cathay Pacific depart for Austin, returned to the gate flight from Milan to Hong Kong. He later after a male passenger was witnessed received a three-week prison sentence and writing a suicide note, in which he was a HK$3,000 (ca. £250) fine. threatening to kill everyone on board, by Janet Riffe, the woman sitting next to him. 6 JUNE: SOFIA, BULGARIA Riffe saw the man was writing frantically, A Thomson flight en route from Manchester tried to see what he was doing and to Heraklion diverted to Sofia after a male notified the cabin crew. passenger allegedly became drunk and started smoking in the toilet of the aircraft. 29 MAY: TOULOUSE, FRANCE The passenger had to be restrained by Grant Marshall caused a Jet2.com flight crewmembers. from Leeds to Alicante to divert to Toulouse due to his unruly behaviour whilst 7 JUNE: LUTON, UK 21 JUNE: YALUTOROVSK, RUSSIA travelling as part of a group heading off on Supermodel Kate Moss, 41, was Ilya Kudryashov, a former employee of the a stag weekend. He was later fined £4,809 escorted off an easyJet flight arriving from Russian Space Agency, is alleged to have and given a lifetime ban from travelling Bodrum after she had allegedly become stolen a Yak-52 aircraft from an airfield in with Jet2. disruptive on board. No arrest was made. the Tyumen region. Kudryashov had to perform an emergency landing after the 30 MAY: SHANGHAI, CHINA plane had been airborne for 30 minutes, A Japanese passenger on board a China rendering the aircraft inoperable. He Southern Airlines flight preparing to depart left the scene with a friend in another Shenzhen for Shanghai, was found to be aircraft. Both men are under investigation. smoking in the plane’s toilet, causing the Kudryashov denied the allegation of flight to be delayed by six hours. hijacking or theft, claiming he had paid for the plane. 2 JUNE: JFK, NEW YORK
Actress Jennifer Bassey, 72, was removed 15 JUNE: WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND from a Delta A 17-year-old was removed from an Air Airlines New Zealand flight prior to its departure flight prior to its departure for to Christchurch after he allegedly became Indianapolis after allegedly assaulting a agitated and aggressive, forcing the plane flight attendant on board the aircraft. to return to the gate.
4 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 16 JUNE: VIENNA, AUSTRIA 19 JUNE: CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA 1 JULY: WINNIPEG, CANADA Yossi Davidov, an Israeli A woman, 27, was taken to psychiatric Paulette Metuq, 24, had to photographer, had to be removed by hospital after allegedly becoming disruptive be restrained and arrested the Police from an Austrian Airlines on board a flight from Irkutsk to Moscow, upon landing after she flight prior to its departure for Tel forcing the aircraft to make an emergency allegedly became drunk and Aviv. Davidov became embroiled in an landing in Chelyabinsk. Elena Epimakhov, aggressive on board an Air argument with a crewmember over the representing the Ministry of Interior, Canada flight from Ottawa to Vancouver, quantity of photographic equipment reported that, "One of the passengers, forcing the plane to be diverted to Richardson he was bringing on board as hand a woman born in 1988, possessing dual International Airport. A male flight attendant baggage. He later claimed that he felt citizenship of Russia and Israel, is suspected had to be treated for minor injuries. the flight attendant, who he believed to of temporary psychosis. During the flight she be Muslim, was discriminating against got up, started pacing around the passenger 2 JULY: COLUMBUS, OHIO him because he was Jewish as she had compartment, singing songs, and pouring A woman in her 50s, on board a United not questioned anybody else about water on the passengers. She didn't seem to Airlines flight from St. Louis to Washington their luggage. When the Police tried comprehend what was going on; the flight D.C., allegedly made a bomb threat forcing to remove him from the aircraft he attendants kept trying to sit her back down, the plane to be diverted to Port Columbus. started screaming, “You killed six million give her warnings, but in general she wasn't Jews, do you wanna kill another one?” taking in the information." 3 JULY: NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND Davidov was arrested, along with three Demelza Matenga, 26, became drunk and colleagues, but released after paying a 20 JUNE: BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND unruly on board an Air New Zealand flight from €100 (ca. £70) fine. Jeremiah Mathias Thede, 42, was arrested at Auckland to Napier. She was later sentenced to Belfast airport after allegedly becoming unruly 80 hours’ community work by Hastings Court. on board a United Airlines flight en route from Rome to Chicago, causing the diversion of the 7 JULY: SHANGHAI, CHINA aircraft. The argument started over his request Three passengers were arrested after they for nuts…and then more nuts. upgraded themselves from Economy to Business Class when boarding a China 21 JUNE: PARIS, FRANCE Southern Airlines plane from Shenzhen to A woman was escorted off a flight en route Shanghai and refused to return back to to Moscow after she allegedly shouted at their seats. They were allegedly frustrated security guards that President Vladimir Putin that their flight had been delayed 3 hours would kill them. The woman is alleged to due to bad weather and thought the ‘free’ have been drunk and aggressive. upgrade would be fair compensation.
26 JUNE: DENVER, COLORADO 7 JULY: BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS 17 JUNE: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA A passenger allegedly started smoking Aghasi Melikian, 32, was A man in his 20s, on board an Etihad flight on board a United Airlines flight en route arrested after he allegedly from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne, had to to Boston, causing the aircraft to return started smoking on board an be restrained after he allegedly attacked to Denver. The flight ended up being American Eagle flight en route a female flight attendant when he was cancelled and passengers had to spend the from Dallas to Springfield, told not to smoke on the aircraft. The night in Denver. causing the diversion of the passenger was arrested upon arrival. plane to Northwest Arkansas. 30 JUNE: TENERIFE, SPAIN Cigarettes, two 10 milligram methadone 17 JUNE: DELHI, INDIA Stewart Kennedy, 30, assaulted female pills and other unidentified pills were found Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav, 47, passengers and attempted to start a fight in Melikian’s luggage. allegedly physically assaulted a female on a Ryanair flight from Bournemouth. He flight attendant on board a Jet Airways was arrested on arrival and later fined £350 7 JULY: HOUSTON, TEXAS flight en route from Patna to Delhi. Yadav for resisting arrest while being removed A passenger was removed from an denies the allegations. from the flight in question. He was also AeroMexico flight, en route from JFK to banned for life from travelling with Ryanair. Mexico City, after it diverted to Houston after he allegedly became unruly on board. 1 JULY: IBIZA, SPAIN 5 passengers were removed from an 11 JULY: BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETS easyJet flight en route from Bristol to Ibiza Darren Halliwell, 48, was after they had allegedly become intoxicated arrested due to unruly and aggressive on board. behaviour on board a British Airways flight en 1 JULY: TORONTO, CANADA route from London to Louis Labrecque was escorted off a Porter Houston, causing the Airlines flight after he complained that all the diversion of the plane to Boston. Halliwell service announcements were being made in allegedly pulled his pants down, urinated English. Labrecque filed a complaint against on the seats, and slapped his wife. He was 18 JUNE: DAVAO, PHILIPPINES Porter Airlines and Ports Toronto to the Office released after paying a £3,250 bail fee. Rainer Bendigo Cua was arrested on of the Official Languages Commissioner arrival in Davao after the Captain of stating that the crew did not speak French 11 JULY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Philippine Airlines flight arriving from and, as a result, he had been forced to raise A passenger was arrested for allegedly Manila summoned assistance as Cua had his voice. The complaint against the airline, assaulting a male crewmember on board made comments on board intimating that which does not have to act under Canada’s a China Southern Airlines flight from his bag contained a bomb. Official Languages Act was dismissed. Guangzhou to Los Angeles.
August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 13 JULY: DALAMAN, TURKEY 20 JULY: ORLANDO, FLORIDA 24 JULY: JFK, NEW YORK Three passengers were arrested when Calvin Liu, 25, had to be pepper-sprayed Jerry Speziale, a their Jet2.com flight from Glasgow after he refused to follow instructions to former officer at the landed in Dalaman. Paul Strain and leave a Delta Airlines plane following a Port Authority of New Kevin Brady later ended up with lifetime dispute over the size of his hand baggage. York and New Jersey, bans from flying the airline, and Claire was removed from a Marshall received a six-month ban, due 21 JULY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA flight due to an to their actions which included Brady A woman had to be removed from an argument with crew stripping and dancing in the aisle of American Airlines flight preparing to over oversized baggage. Speziale is alleged the plane and making vulgar sexual depart from Charlotte to Manchester after to have avoided security checks at JFK on gestures, before spitting at the crew and she allegedly threatened to kill someone several occasions. threatening them. Strain and Brady both she was speaking to on her mobile phone. refused to hand over e-cigarettes which 25 JULY: QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND they allegedly smoked and cabin crew 21 JULY: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA A man, 47, was escorted off an Air New claimed Brady was spotted stealing wine U.S. rapper Lil Wayne, 33, was removed Zealand flight preparing to depart for from the bar. from a private jet at Fort Lauderdale Auckland after he allegedly started arguing airport after he allegedly started smoking when he was asked to move seats. 14 JULY: HONG KONG marijuana shortly after take-off prompting An Australian man in his 60s was arrested the Captain to turn back to Fort Lauderdale. 26 JULY: GUANGZHOU, CHINA for allegedly assaulting a Cathay Pacific A man flight attendant on board a flight preparing 22 JULY: LARNACA, CYPRUS tried to start a to depart from Hong Kong to Zurich. Two passengers became drunk and unruly fire on board on board a Jet2.com flight en route from a Shenzhen 17 JULY: CLEVELAND, OHIO Newcastle to Larnaca. They were later given a Airlines flight A passenger was arrested for allegedly 12-month ban from travelling with the airline. en route from smoking in the toilet of a Frontier Airlines Taizhou to flight en route from Seattle to Cleveland. 22 JULY: KOTOKA, GHANA Guangzhou, A passenger on board a British Airways resulting in the 17 JULY: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE flight from Ghana to London caused the aircraft making A passenger was escorted off a Southwest cancellation of the flight after he had an emergency Airlines flight from St. Louis to Newark after decided not to travel moments before take- landing and he allegedly ignored flight instructions, off. He is then alleged to have engaged in a the passengers forcing the plane to divert to Nashville. three-hour argument with the crew, and to and crew being have refused a first-class upgrade. evacuated. Two 19 JULY: LEEDS, UK passengers A woman, 56, and a man, 63, was arrested 22 JULY: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA had to be treated for minor injuries. One after they allegedly became unruly, and Sarah Buffett, a 41-year-old lawyer, allegedly passenger, Huang Caihong, was interviewed verbally and physically assaulted cabin crew drank alcohol and took a prescription by the Qianjiang Evening News and told them on board a Jet2 flight from Lanzarote to medicine used for treating insomnia on board that the perpetrator was "a man aged 40 to Leeds. They were banned from flying with a US Airways flight from Charlotte to London. 50. He had a shoulder bag and was carrying Jet2 for life. She is reported to have become physically newspapers", when he passed her on the aggressive, resulting in her being restrained way to the first-class section. Soon after, she 20 JULY: VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA and the plane diverting to Philadelphia. heard passengers shouting "Fire!" and then A drunk passenger on board a Siberian she saw black smoke. "He lit the newspapers Airlines flight from Hong Kong to 22 JULY: TYLER, TEXAS but the fire was put out by the cabin crew. Vladivostok became argumentative A drunk passenger was arrested and Brandishing a knife, he then walked back to and was eventually attacked by fellow- escorted off an American Airlines Eagle the economy section, warning everyone not passengers (in a video widely viewed flight at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. to move, but two male stewards forced him on YouTube). He was restrained on the to stop and some passengers blocked his ground by the use of extension seat belts 23 JULY: SAIGON, VIETNAM way with luggage. The man then went back and cling film. Le Quyen, to first class and tried to set another fire. The a 34-year-old cabin was engulfed with choking smoke." Vietnamese pop Concern was expressed as to how the man star, allegedly managed to allowed her son board the plane to urinate into a with a lighter, sick bag on knife and gasoline board a Vietnam in his possession. Airlines flight en The Chinese route from Hanoi to Saigon. She is reported authorities to have ignored crewmembers questions as then fired the 20 JULY: GLASGOW, UK to why the boy did not use the toilet. Director and Vice Reports emerged that passengers on Director of the board a Ryanair flight from Glasgow 23 JULY: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM Civil Aviation to Ibiza allegedly became unruly, used A man, 27, allegedly locked himself in Administration abusive language, and sang 'Look Right the toilet and started smoking on board a in Taizhou and Through' by Storm Queen, ignoring Vietnam Airlines flight from Sydney to Ho closed the airport crewmember’s order to be quiet and Chi Minh City. The crew had to restrain him; entirely pending refrain from swearing. he was later fined VND 4million (ca. £115). investigation.
6 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 27 JULY: LAGOS, NIGERIA INCIDENTS 30 MAY: WINNIPEG, CANADA Lawal Oluwabusola was arrested upon Flights were delayed at Winnipeg after 400 arrival after he allegedly started smoking passengers had to be evacuated from the an electronic cigarette in the toilet of an 25 MAY: MIAMI, FLORIDA holding area due to a security breach. Arik Air flight from London to Lagos. Francis Xavier Riley, the 31 MAY: WASHINGTON DC 28 JULY: BANGKOK, THAILAND Captain of the A man on board a Thai Airways flight from National Airlines Zurich had to be restrained after being drunk flight from and aggressive. Three passengers had to be Marathon to Key treated for minor injuries. West which was hijacked to Cuba by 29 JULY: MINNESOTA, MINNESOTA Antulio Ramirez Puddle Ortiz on 1st May of Mudd 1961, died aged 97. frontman Wes Scantlin, 43, 27 MAY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA was removed Jennifer from a plane Lopez, 45, was preparing to approached by depart for Los a man dressed Angeles as a clown and A Muslim chaplain, Tahera Ahmad, expressed because he was allegedly too drunk to ‘shot’ by a her disappointment on Facebook after a travel. Scantlin claimed he had taken confetti-bomb flight attendant on a United Airlines flight to painkillers, but a strong smell of alcohol as she walked Washington allegedly refused to serve her an was noted on his breath. He was sent through the unopened can of drink. United are investigating home by taxi but he was arrested a few check-in at Los the issue; Ahmad received an apology from hours later for drunk driving. Angeles both the attendant and the passenger. Airport. The 30 JULY: NEW DELHI, INDIA prankster, 29, 2 JUNE: BEIJING, CHINA A mentally unstable passenger on board a had previously Four passengers on board an Air China flight Cebu Pacific Air flight from Dubai to Manila been charged en route from Hong Kong to Beijing made a made a bomb threat, causing the diversion with stalking complaint to a flight attendant about the smell of the plane to New Delhi. and battery. of cigarette smoke coming from the cockpit.
August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 7 JUNE: OSAKA, JAPAN 18 JUNE: RICHMOND, UK 22 JUNE: ROSARIO, ARGENTINA A Japan Airlines pilot was dismissed after A stowaway was found dead on top of a he took photographs with a flight attendant building in Richmond after he allegedly who had replaced the First Officer on the fell from the undercarriage of a British CEIA flight deck (for a comfort break). The flight Airways flight as the landing gear was attendant was seen to be seated in the First lowered in preparation for landing at Officer’s seat. The Captain was accused of a Heathrow. The aircraft, arriving from lack of vigilance. Johannesburg, was found to have Electromagnetic another stowaway on board who had 7 JUNE: REYKJAVIK, ICELAND survived the flight, yet who was in a A woman holding an American passport was critical condition. found to have been living in the airport terminal Two pilots, Patrick Zocch and Soaje Screening Equipment at Keflavik International Airport for seven 22 JUNE: WASHINGTON DC Federico Matias, were removed from their days. The Suðurnes Police were summoned to Peter Neffenger, 60, was nominated positions after photos of them posing with investigate when airport staff realised that she as head of the Transportation Security actress Vicky Xipolitakis in the cockpit on was going to the same shop every day to buy Administration. board an Aerolineas Argentinas flight from EU TSA a coke and a banana. The woman refused to Buenos Aires to Rosario were published on return to the U.S. but did eventually agree to Xipolitakis’s Twitter account. The actress Certified Qualified board a flight to Edinburgh. received a five-year ban from travelling with the airline. 7 JUNE: VANCOUVER, CANADA Investigations of a security breach were 30 JUNE: DUBAI, UAE initiated after Air Canada passengers arriving from Beijing were directed to the domestic terminal of the airport by mistake, PASSENGERS allowing them to enter the country without going through customs.
10 JUNE: KOZHIKODE, INDIA A CISF constable, A S Yadav, was killed and three others were injured when a fight 24-26 JUNE: ASUNCION, PARAGUAY broke out between the security personnel Technical workers at Paraguay’s Paris Hilton, 34, allegedly became a victim High Sensitivity & High Discrimination EMDs Series and Airports Authority of India officials at international airports in Asuncion and of a prank of an Egyptian TV programme. Calicut International Airport. The argument Ciudad del Este commenced a three- Hilton, who had been invited to participate started when officials of the fire and rescue day strike on 24 June. 200 workers in a private aerial jet tour of Dubai, services were asked to show their ID demonstrated at Asuncion Airport, carrying experienced what she later tweeted as being passes. The airport was shut down for over signs and chanting, “No to the public- the “scariest moment of my life” when the six hours. private alliance”. Three demonstrators pilot pretended to crash the plane. were injured on the first day, when police 15 JUNE: STANSTED, UK fired at workers blocking a highway leading British reality TV show contestant, and to the airport. The workers ended their LIQUIDS accomplished businesswoman, Luisa protest on 26 June. Zissman, 28, vented on Twitter after she was allegedly asked by a female airport security officer at a Stansted airport checkpoint to show her intimate selfies on her mobile phone. Zissman posted: "I'm @ STN_Airport & the security woman EMA Series - Standard 3, Type A and Type B BLS demands to see the pics on my phone! WTF? She was embarrassed when the selfies came up! #weirdo.”
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CEIA_Advert_FC060K0316v1000UK.indd 1 09/07/2015 12:04:18 10 JULY: MUNICH, GERMANY 17 JULY: MUMBAI, INDIA 29 JULY: ROME, ITALY An investigation started after a United A Spicejet flight from Mumbai to Jabalpur Airlines pilot threw bullets into the toilet was delayed for unspecified reasons on board an aircraft en route from Houston resulting in the passengers staging a protest to Munich. The pilot, who has the right to due to the lack of information. carry a gun on domestic flights, had failed to empty the bullets from his luggage before 19 JULY: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA boarding the plane and tried to get rid of A person who entered a restricted area them before arriving to Germany. without going through security raised the alarm at Richmond International Airport, 11 JULY: ASUNCION, PARAGUAY causing major delays as the screening of Vicky Xipolitakis, the Greek model who was all passengers had to be repeated. banned from flying Aerolineas Argentinas for five years due to the incident on 22 20 JULY: WARSAW, POLAND June (see above), flew to Paraguay in A Lufthansa plane arriving at Warsaw's the hope of meeting The Pope who was international airport nearly collided with a Operations about to visit Asuncion. She wished to ask drone. The pilots immediately reported the at Rome’s him for forgiveness. However, there were incident to air traffic control and the plane Fiumicino scenes at the airport in Buenos Aires prior was rerouted. Airport were to departure when Xipolitakis allegedly suspended caused a disturbance by requesting special 26 JULY: JFK, NEW YORK for two treatment. She did fly to Asuncion with TAM A Kuwait hours as a but, bizarrely, requested to meet the Captain Airways pilot result of a on that flight as well. The crew denied her allegedly invited fire in a pine access to the flight deck but the Captain did ex-porn star Chloe grove meet her for a photograph and a kiss once Khan and her friend nearby. The on the ground in Asuncion! into the cockpit delays led to whilst flying from angry scenes in the airport terminal with Heathrow to New passengers having their flights cancelled. York. The Captain is At one point there was a physical alleged to have confrontation between an Alitalia member ordered of staff who ended up shoving a champagne for his passenger (an incident now popular ‘guests’ and, viewing online) after he shouted at her. according to Khan, The Italian authorities are now “He was showing investigating whether, given that the fire 12 JULY: MANILA, PHILIPPINES us what each of the buttons did and said started in multiple locations, the blaze Edcel Biag, a 21-year-old Airport Police we could sit on his knee and wear his was an act of arson specifically designed Officer, allegedly fired his gun by accident pilot's cap and fly the plane”. Khan took to disrupt airport operations. at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, photographs (images are credited to causing injuries to his colleague Wally Intrigue Management) and video showing 31 JULY: STANSTED, UK Barongrong, 22, and himself. Concerns the Captain smoking and his tie with a A suspicious package, thought to be a pipe were raised, however, as only one bullet badge from the Mile High Club. bomb, was found in the FedEx cargo area had been fired while Barongrong had to be at Stansted Airport. treated for 3 gunshot wounds.
13 JULY: HEATHROW, UK SABOTAGE Activists protesting against the plans for a AND ATTACKS new runway at Heathrow airport cut through the security fence and chained themselves together. Due to the incident, at least 21 29 MAY: BENGHAZI, LIBYA flights were cancelled. A militant group with connections to Libya's Islamic State took over the al- Qardabiya civilian air base in the central city of Sirte.
2 JUNE: GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma International Airport in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was attacked by several members of the Mai-Mai militia. The militants were met by Congolese troops. By the end, four 17 JULY: HONG KONG Republican Guard soldiers and three A bag containing NZ$1 million (£425,000) 27 JULY: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA militiamen were reported killed; two was determined to have been stolen at Steven Patrick Morrissey, 56, the former of the government soldiers had their Hong Kong International Airport while Smiths frontman, filed a complaint throats slit, while the two others had been being transported from New Zealand to the against a US airport security guard who, shot. The Mai-Mai were led by Kambale Bank of China. Morrissey claims, sexually assaulted him. Malonga who was arrested the next day.
10 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 22 JUNE: WARSAW, POLAND 25 JULY: COOLANGATTA, AUSTRALIA JUDGEMENT Ten flights were cancelled and more than A man, 34, stole a car from a AND ARRESTS 1,400 passengers’ journey were impacted rental firm and drove it into Gold Coast at Warsaw's Frederic Chopin Airport due Airport’s domestic terminal. He was to a cyber-attack that targeted Polish arrested at the scene. 27 MAY: MELBOURNE, FLORIDA carrier LOT’s ground operations system. Christopher John Hall, 57, the pilot of a Cessna 337 28 JUNE: ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA was arrested after, being A UPS plane en route from Pittsburgh allegedly drunk, he drove to Philadelphia was hit by a laser strike. the plane off the runway at The pilots of the plane, who were Melbourne International temporarily blinded by the laser, had to Airport with his son on board. A nearly be treated in hospital. half-empty bottle of cognac and an 25 JULY: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN unopened bottle of wine were found on the 16 JULY: ADEN, YEMEN Kabul International Airport was hit by two plane, along with a water bottle with a Saudi-led militants loyal to the Yemeni rockets. No damage was caused. strong alcohol smell. government took over Aden airport, and several city districts, from Houthi rebels as part 29 JULY: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO of the so-called ‘Operation Golden Arrow’ Protesters attacked Uber drivers and offensive to drive out the Houthis from Aden. their vehicles with clubs, stones, flour and eggs outside Mexico City’s airport. They 16 JULY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON tried to rip off wing mirrors and broke An Alaska Airlines flight arriving in some windows. Taxi drivers around the Seattle from Juneau was hit by a laser world have been frustrated by the growth strike whilst on final approach to Sea-Tac and success of the Uber app. International Airport.
17 JULY: SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA A man, 23, was arrested after he 29 MAY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA allegedly drove his car into a fence at A Catholic priest, Father Marcelo De Santa Monica Airport. When explaining Jesumaria, was found guilty of sexually what happened, he told the police assaulting a woman on board a US Airways officers that he wanted to make his flight from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in parents pay more attention to him. November 2014.
August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 11 30 MAY: MANILA, PHILIPPINES 7 JUNE: PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN 15 JUNE: TAIPEI, TAIWAN Cipriano de A man travelling from Majorca to Japanese-Korean actor Daisuke Ryu, Guzman, 58, was Birmingham was arrested at Palma Airport 58, was found guilty of attacking an arrested after he after he allegedly ran on to the runway as immigration officer at Taiwan Taoyuan allegedly tried to a stag-do dare a few minutes before his International Airport on 21 March 2015. pass through flight’s departure. security at Ninoy Aquino International 15 JUNE: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Airport with a live grenade and knife in 8 JUNE: LAHORE, PAKISTAN Conrad Hilton, 20, who was allegedly drunk ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY his possession. Five Thai nationals, reported to be students, and under the influence of drugs, and were arrested after they allegedly tried to became disruptive on board a flight from board a Thai Airways flight with a pistol and London to Los Angeles in February received ammunition at Allama Iqbal International a three-year probation sentence as well as FOR LiquiD Airport. Initial reports indicate that the 750 hours of community service and he was group intended to hijack the plane. ordered to pay $5,000 (appr. £3,200) fine and submit for mental health and substance 9 JUNE: TIRUCHI, INDIA abuse treatment. S. Alexander, 27, was arrested three months THREATs DETECTiON after making a hoax call threatening to 17 JUNE: LUQA, MALTA detonate a bomb at Tiruchi International Matteo Clementi, 26 and Enrica Airport on 17 February 2015. Alexander Apollonio, 23, were arrested after they checked admitted to having made the call. in late for their Ryanair flight to Bari and, finding 31 MAY: BIRMINGHAM, UK the gate closed and realising that they would EU TYPE C STANDARD 2 LEDS Rahees Iqbal, 19, was given a 12-month 9 JUNE: SINGAPORE miss their flight, they then went to the next community order and 180 hours’ unpaid Behan Michael Hugh, 40, was fined $4,000 gate, forced open the security door, ran down work as a result of his becoming drunk and (ca. £1,860) for his unruly behaviour on to the apron and began signalling to the pilots threatening fellow-passengers on board board a Singapore Airlines flight en route to let them onto the plane. They were later an Emirates flight en route from Dubai to from Amsterdam to Singapore. He verbally fined €2,329.37 (ca. £1,630) for entering a Birmingham on 23 April 2015. Iqbal was assaulted crewmembers and stole fellow- restricted zone at Malta International Airport. ordered to pay a £200 compensation and passengers’ personal belongings worth £295 costs. more than $480 (ca. £220).
3 JUNE: MIAMI, FLORIDA 10 JUNE: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Manuel Alberto Alvarado was ordered Milinda Gunasekera, 33, was fined to pay $89,000 (ca. £57,000) to Miami AU$2,500 (c. £1,250) for allegedly touching International Airport for making a bomb a female passenger’s breast on board a threat in October 2014. His joke caused Qantas flight whilst returning home from flight delays, disrupted thousands of a trip to Chile in October 2014. Whilst in passengers, and led to the evacuation of transit in Auckland, he allegedly drank a several terminals. bottle of vodka in the airport toilets before 22 JUNE: TOKYO, JAPAN getting on the plane, but fellow passengers Kamronwit 4 JUNE: KEY WEST, FLORIDA complained about his behaviour and he was Thoopkrachang, the Jamie Crabtree, 32, was removed from the flight prior to departure. 60-year-old former arrested for allegedly planning head of police in to stowaway on board a Delta 11 JUNE: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA Bangkok, was arrested FEP ME 640 Airlines flight; he had Bobby Kim, a as he tried to get on a managed to get into a secure 42-year-old Korean Thai Airways flight at Narita Airport carrying siNGLE ViEw TECHNOLOGY zone, broke into an aircraft and then fell hip-hop singer, was a gun and ammunition in his luggage. asleep in the cargo bay before being found fined W4 million suPERiOR iMAGE quALiTY by ground staff. (c. £2,200) and ordered 25 JUNE: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA to take part in a 40-hour A drunk man, 25, trying to board a SkyBus 5 JUNE: DARTMOUTH, CANADA sexual harassment shuttle without ticket was arrested after Jason George Chase, 40, who had sex with awareness programme he allegedly hit the driver at Melbourne Alice Elizabeth Lander, whilst they were after he sexually Airport. The driver was taken to hospital both drunk on board an Air Canada flight assaulted a flight for treatment. en route from Toronto to Halifax in January attendant on board a Korean Air flight en route FEP ME 640AMX 2014, was conditionally discharged for 18 from Incheon to San Francisco on 7th January. 1 JULY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA months, and ordered to complete 50 hours Scott Hines, 26, was arrested for allegedly MuLTiViEw TECHNOLOGY of community work by 31 May 2016. 11 JUNE: NEWCASTLE, UK pointing a laser at a plane arriving at Deer uPGRADABLE FOR Paul Clark, 41, was Valley Airport. sentenced to eight months in EXPLOsiVEs DETECTiON prison, suspended for 18 3 & 4 JULY: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS months, for sexually assaulting Marilyn Hartman, 63, a woman at Newcastle also known as ‘the serial International Airport and stowaway’ was arrested at being unruly on board an Midway Airport on 3rd July easyJet flight to Alicante on 9 September 2014. and again at O’Hare Airport Clark was also banned for life from using on 4th July. She had been released from Newcastle Airport and his name was put on the prison on 2nd July after serving two months Sex Offenders’ Register for seven years. for previous stowaway attempts.
12 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational Reserving the right to improve and modify www.gilardoni.it 4 JULY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA 28 JULY: HONG KONG 15 JUNE: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Robert Clinton Henry, 35, was pepper- Three men and three women hoping to A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from sprayed after he allegedly became travel on a Hong Kong Airlines flight to London was directed to an isolated area at aggressive, assaulted gate attendants and Beijing were arrested after they allegedly Newark Liberty International Airport due to tried to run out on the tarmac. assaulted airport staff being agitated due to a bomb threat. a six-hour delay. Three male and four female 8 JULY: JAKARTA, INDONESIA staff members had to be treated in hospital. 17 JUNE: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA WX, 36, was arrested after he allegedly Eastern Iowa Airport was evacuated for two stole from fellow-passengers on board a 28 JULY: DALLAS, TEXAS hours due to a bomb threat. A 47-year- flight from Doha to Jakarta. Damarias old man was arrested shortly later, but no Emmanuel Cockerham, explosives were found in his possession or 9 JULY: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA 25, was questioned at the airport. Shane Mathew after he allegedly got Diedrichs, 38, was on board an American 21 JUNE: KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA fined NZ$664 (ca. Airlines flight en route Yemelyanovo international airport in £280) for his unruly to Guatemala without a Krasnoyarsk had to be evacuated due to a behaviour on board a ticket and avoiding bomb threat. flight from Wellington security check at Dallas/ to Brisbane in Fort Worth. He claims he was trying to prevent 25 JUNE: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK November 2014. his girlfriend from travelling. A Turkish Airlines flight, en route from Istanbul to New York, had to make an 15 JULY: MUMBAI, INDIA emergency landing in Copenhagen due to Deepak Golani, the THREATS a bomb threat caused by a suspicious piece 54-year-old Chief Security of luggage on board. Officer for Etihad in Mumbai, was arrested at 30 MAY: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 25 JUNE: WARSAW, POLAND Mumbai Airport and faces A United Airlines flight arriving from Newark A man, 48, was arrested for allegedly charges for his had to be evacuated upon landing due to a making a bomb threat targeting a Ryanair involvement in smuggling bomb threat. plane from Warsaw to Oslo. gold through the airport. 2 JUNE: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 27 JUNE: PARIS, FRANCE 16 JULY: SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS A US Airways flight, en route from San Charles de Gaulle International Airport had Philip Maschek, 50, an Diego to Philadelphia, was searched upon to be evacuated due to a bomb threat. air traffic controller landing after receiving a bomb threat. working for Robinson 28 JUNE: NEW YORK, USA Aviation was arrested 6 JUNE: ISTANBUL, TURKEY Philip Ngom, 64, was after being found A Turkish Airlines flight preparing to depart arrested after he allegedly unconscious at his desk for New York was delayed after a note was made several bomb threats whilst on duty at found in one of the aircraft's toilets stating between 9 June and 24 June Springdale Municipal there was a bomb on board. 2015, including one Airport. Maschek was targeting JFK. allegedly intoxicated. 6 JUNE: SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from 30 JUNE: NADI, FIJI 17 JULY: GLASGOW, UK Minneapolis had to be searched upon Swarup Das A man, 26, was arrested after he hid a fake landing after a bomb threat had been issued a threat and bomb as a joke in the bag of his friend – the made against 10 different planes was false statement to groom – with whom he was travelling with received by The Federal Transportation Air Terminal to Berlin for his stag-do. Security Operations Center in service passenger Washington, D.C. agent Martha 19 JULY: ISTANBUL, TURKEY Tuilakepa at Nadi A male Turkish Airlines crewmember was 8 JUNE: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA International fired after having been found responsible A 99-year-old passenger found a note Airport indicating for a bomb threat made against a flight with a bomb threat on board a plane at that he had a from Istanbul to Basel on 17 April 2015. Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. bomb and was going to detonate it. He was fined $2000 (ca. £600). 22 JULY: BANGKOK, THAILAND 9 JUNE: HELSINKI, FINLAND An Israeli girl, who had been discharged A man was arrested after allegedly making 1 JULY: CALGARY, CANADA from the army five days earlier, was found a bomb threat on a plane taking off from A WestJet flight from Vancouver to Toronto to be carrying thirteen M-16 bullets in Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. was diverted to Calgary due to a bomb hoax. her bag as she went through the security This was one in a series of bomb threats checkpoint in Bangkok whilst en route from 10 JUNE: NEWBURGH, NEW YORK against Canadian flights within a week. A Tel Aviv to Chiang Mai; they had probably A man was arrested and taken to hospital WestJet flight from Toronto to Saskatoon, been left over from her army service. after allegedly making a bomb threat at one from Edmonton to Toronto, diverted Stewart Air National Guard Base. to Winnipeg, and one from Edmonton 22 JULY: BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA to Halifax, diverted to Saskatoon had to Four young men were questioned by the 14 JUNE: JFK, NEW YORK be searched upon landing. Meanwhile, a Slovak authorities after they allegedly An Alitalia flight from Milan to JFK had to suspicious note found in the toilet of an Air directed a bright green laser at a Ryanair be evacuated upon landing after authorities Canada flight caused the temporary closure flight bound for London. received a bomb threat. of St. John’s International Airport.
14 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED August 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 3 JULY: SINT MAARTEN 20 JULY: MIAMI, FLORIDA 24 JULY: KOLKATA, INDIA A KLM flight to Curaçao was diverted to An American Airlines flight arriving A man who allegedly made a joke whilst Princess Juliana International Airport due to from Los Angeles was the subject of speaking to his Air India employee friend a bomb threat. a bomb threat upon landing at Miami on the phone caused a bomb scare at the International Airport. Air India office. When asked who he was, he 7 JULY: SINGAPORE answered “Osama bin Laden”. A man, 21, was arrested after he allegedly 22 JULY: ISTANBUL, TURKEY emailed and tweeted several threats A passenger, 18, was questioned after 29 JULY: MONTREAL, CANADA targeting a Singapore Airlines flight to a suspicious note caused a bomb A British Airways flight, en route from Las Australia. threat on a Turkish Airlines flight Vegas to London, was diverted to Montreal arriving from Tallinn. due to a bomb threat. 7 JULY: NEW DELHI, INDIA A Turkish Airlines plane en route from Bangkok to Istanbul made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport due to a bomb threat that was written with lipstick on the mirror in one of the toilets. The lipstick used was found.
7 JULY: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA A flight en route to Chicago had to return to Charlottesville due to a bomb threat.
7 JULY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA An American Airlines flight to Minneapolis had to return to Charlotte-Douglas Airport due to a security threat against the aircraft.
8 JULY: LAWTON, OKLAHOMA A woman was questioned after she allegedly made a bomb threat at Lawton- Fort Sill Regional Airport.
9 JULY: MUSCAT, OMAN A Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Dubai was diverted to Muscat International Airport due to a bomb threat.
11 JULY: NEW DELHI, INDIA Indira Gandhi International Airport was thoroughly searched due to a bomb threat. No explosives were found. 12 JULY: GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN Celebrating Gothenburg’s Landvetter airport was evacuated after a suspicious item was found in the airport’s car park. better airports 13 JULY: JAIPUR, INDIA Surinder Partap, 24, was arrested after a Jet Airways th inter airport Europe flight from Mumbai to Dubai 20 anniversary – was diverted to Muscat Excellence for the airport industry International Airport due to a bomb threat posted on Partap’s Twitter account. Passengers and crew were evacuated. Partap later claimed that his account had been hacked. 6 – 9 October 2015 16 JULY: INVERNESS, FLORIDA Munich Trade Fair, Germany David Wayne Willmott, 24, was arrested after he allegedly made a 20th International Exhibition for Airport Equipment, Technology, Design & Services number of bomb threats via email targeting several places including Tampa and Clearwater airports. www.interairport.com/europe
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JUNE 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 3 32 44 JUDGEMENTS AND 9 APRIL: TORONTO, CANADA 16 APRIL: MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN ARRESTS A man allegedly tried to board a plane Puddle of Mudd rocker Wes Scantlin, 42, heading to Istanbul in a restricted area was arrested after an alleged incident at 31 MARCH: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA at Pearson International Airport. The Milwaukee’s International Airport. He was A woman was arrested at Mineta San Jose unidentified man is alleged to have been released from custody after a few hours. International Airport after she allegedly vocal and agitated before being tasered jumped over the fence and trespassed and arrested. 17 APRIL: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA within the south cargo area of the airport. Andrew Bryant was arrested after allegedly She refused to identify herself and was 12 APRIL: CRAWLEY, UK trespassing within an airport operations taken into custody. Arni Helgason, 50, was given a 12-month area at Louis Armstrong Airport. conditional discharge and was ordered to 1 APRIL: HONOLULU, HAWAII pay £300 compensation and £85 costs for 18 APRIL: LONDON HEATHROW, UK Joshu sexually assaulting a female passenger on A Cathay Pacific pilot, 61, who was Osmanski, a board an EasyJet flight from Keflavik to about to fly from London to Hong Kong former Cathay London in January 2015. was arrested an hour before take-off for Pacific Airlines possession of knives. pilot tried to 13 APRIL: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC avoid security Yevgeni Rotshtein, 19 APRIL: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA checks and 32, was sentenced to 2.5 Shaun airport queues by wearing the uniform of his years in prison for Goodfellow, 36, was former employer. He was arrested and endangering air safety placed on a three-year sentenced to three years’ probation. and attempting to hijack good behaviour bond an Aeroflot flight, en and ordered to pay 3 APRIL: JFK, NEW YORK route from Moscow to AU$1000 for Claudio Duran, 20, was Geneva in 2006, to Cairo. physically assaulting a arrested after he Rotshtein, formerly sleeping fellow allegedly drove a stolen known as Yevgeni Dogayev, was arrested in passenger on board a truck to JFK Prague in December 2006, spent two years in Qantas flight en route International Airport, Czech custody and was then released on bail. from Manila to Sydney in August 2014 ran through a security After a Czech court decided on his extradition whilst he was intoxicated. checkpoint and then made his way toward a to Russia, where he faced hijacking charges, departure gate. he escaped to the UK where he applied for, 20 APRIL: ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA and was in 2011 granted, asylum. In February Kelly Ilczyszyn, the widow of Richard 7 APRIL: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM 2013 a Czech court issued an international Ilczyszyn, sued Southwest Airlines accusing N.T.H., 35, was fined VND7.5 million (ca. arrest warrant and he was extradited back to crew members of failing to act after her £225) after allegedly slapping the face of the Czech Republic in October 2014. 46-year-old husband had died of a heart a VietJet Air employee at Tan Son Nhat attack in the toilet on board a flight to International Airport. 15 APRIL: NEW DELHI, INDIA Orange County. Ilczyszyn was allegedly Charges against Commander Ranbeer treated by airline staff as an unruly 8 APRIL: DETROIT, MICHIGAN Arora, an Air India pilot, and his co-pilot passenger as he was crying of pain. A 27-year-old man was arrested after he Captain Aditya Chopra, who had allegedly allegedly walked through the exit lane of both molested a flight attendant in 2009, 27 APRIL: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH a security checkpoint into a terminal area were dropped after they paid compensation Motorist Leo Greene, at Wayne County Airport. Ten flights were to the victim. 39, who refused to stop his delayed while officers were trying to locate vehicle near Salt Lake the man. 15 APRIL: NEW DELHI, INDIA International Airport had to Vinod Kumar, an immigration officer at be chased by police officers. 9 APRIL: HONG KONG Indira Gandhi International Airport, was Greene crashed through the Painter Lee Yuet-fung, 68, was fined arrested after he had allegedly verbally airport fence, abandoned his vehicle and HK$6,000 (ca. £500) for throwing a plastic sexually harassed a woman in March 2015. then tried to escape on foot. He was caught cup at a flight attendant on board a Cathay He was later released on bail. and taken to a hospital. Pacific Airways flight from Singapore to Hong Kong on 10th December 2014. 16 APRIL: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Fernando Miguel Andrade Viseu, 34, a Ryanair flight attendant allegedly tried to sell a camera a passenger left behind on a flight to Prague. However, the owner of the device found the camera on eBay while looking for a replacement. He contacted the seller who admitted the theft. Viseu was arrested and court ordered him to do 100 hours of unpaid work. Ryanair dismissed the man.
4 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED June 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 28 APRIL: CAIRO, EGYPT thought he had seen the pilot drinking 20 MAY: REDDING, CALIFORNIA Yasmine alcohol before take-off. The crew denied Allan Ray Booth, 37, was arrested after el-Narsh, 40, was that the pilot was drunk and decided allegedly stealing an airport baggage arrested prior to to divert to Germany so he could take vehicle and climbing aboard a private jet her boarding an a blood test. The crew had filled out an at Redding Municipal Airport. Having been Egyptair flight to Unruly Passenger Report against the found in a delusional state, Booth allegedly Sharm-el-Sheikh passenger and said that the man would started fighting with security officers and for allegedly be held responsible for the damage that had to be pepper-sprayed. possessing 200 would be caused by the unscheduled grams of hash landing. However, the passenger is now 20 MAY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA and, when suing Turkish Airlines for NIS 510,000 Christian James Heinz, 22, was tasered at challenged, (ca. £86,650) compensation for monetary Los Angeles International Airport after he attacking a police damages and mental anguish. allegedly pushed his way past the security officer. screening area. 4 MAY: VANCOUVER, CANADA Stanislav Kalmin, 51, who allegedly attacked a flight attendant on board 29 APRIL: CAIRO, EGYPT an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to An Eritrean asylum seeker was arrested London, causing the diversion of the plane after he allegedly tried to climb a wall at to Halifax in 2013, received an absolute Cairo International Airport to access the discharge due to medical evidence that he runway. has bipolar disorder. 22 MAY: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA 30 APRIL: SINGAPORE 5 MAY: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA Heather Cho Hyun-ah, the 40-year-old Kobacker Marlon Shae, Chris Haynes, 26, wearing only his former Korean Air executive who had 35, received a two months and underwear, was tasered and arrested at been given a one-year prison sentence in three weeks prison sentence Tallahassee airport after running through February 2015 for the incident at JFK in for having assaulted a female security to catch a plane. He was found which Cho had ordered the aircraft to return passenger on board a British unarmed and without a ticket. to the gate after being dissatisfied with Airways flight to Sydney on the way crew served macadamia nuts, was 3rd March, causing the plane to return to 6 MAY: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS released from prison after having served Changi Airport. When he was met by police Marilyn Hartman, 63, a serial stowaway five months of her sentence. officers upon landing, he started fighting was arrested again after trespassing a with the officers, kicking them in the face. security area. 24 MAY: DUBAI, UAE M A, 68, was jailed for six months for making a 30 APRIL: JFK, NEW YORK 7 MAY: HALIFAX, CANADA bomb threat on board a FlyDubai flight from Melissa Perez, 26, was arrested at JFK and Alice Elizabeth Bahrain to Dubai in January. He also asked the charged with stealing a flight attendant’s Lander, 26, was found flight attendant to have sex with him. After and a fellow-passenger’s belongings on guilty of indecency after completing his sentence, he will be deported. board an American Airlines flight en route she engaged in sexual from Los Angeles to New York. acts with another 27 MAY: HONG KONG passenger and publicly Leung Chun-man, 30, pleaded guilty to seven 1 MAY: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM masturbated on board counts of theft and one of blackmail, having Nguyen Canh Dinh, 28, was fined VND4 an Air Canada flight stolen name tags, uniforms and money from million (ca. £120) for smoking in the toilets from Toronto to Halifax five Cathay Pacific flight attendants over of a Vietnam Airlines flight from Hanoi to in January 2015. the past three years. Leung had a fetish for Ho Chi Minh City. flight attendant uniforms. Most of the thefts 13 MAY: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND were committed on bus routes E22 and E23 2 MAY: LAS VEGAS, CALIFORNIA Graham Leonard, at Hong Kong International Airport. He was A former pilot student was arrested after 46, was fined £1,000 sentenced to 32 months in prison. taking an aircraft for a joyride from North and ordered to perform Las Vegas Airport. 140 hours of unpaid work within the next six INCIDENTS 3 MAY: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT months for his unruly Alaa, 29, was arrested after allegedly behaviour on board an 31 MARCH: JUNEAU, ALASKA getting through a hole in the security wall Eastern Airways flight, The departure lounge and two Alaska at Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport, which had been privately chartered to take a Airlines flights were evacuated at Juneau driving a police car and tampering with a group to Manchester (to see Manchester International Airport after a pilot found an plane. He was determined to have mental United play Tottenham Hotspur) on 15th unfired small-calibre bullet at a jetway. No health problems. March. He sang football songs through the other unauthorised items were found and flight’s public address system and then did the airport was reopened within an hour. 4 MAY: DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY the same on the airport’s PA system on his Reports emerge that an Israeli passenger arrival in Aberdeen. 1 APRIL: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA on board a Turkish Airlines plane en The pilot of a FlySafair flight to Port route from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam, in 17 MAY: FRANKFURT, GERMANY Elizabeth allegedly made an April Fool’s December 2014, was removed from A woman was denied boarding a flight joke after the cabin lost pressure. The the flight after an emergency landing to Vienna after she allegedly made a joke problem, however, turned out to be real in Düsseldorf. The incident happened about a bomb while going through security. and the plane had to return to Cape Town. when the man told the cabin crew that he She was arrested and charged. FlySafair denied the accusations.
June 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 3 APRIL: LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA 11 APRIL: MOSCOW, RUSSIA 24 APRIL: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL Launceston Airport was evacuated for A Russian tourist was Sarina Aziz, a 19-month old toddler, was more than two hours after a bag with a filmed having fallen asleep removed from a Transavia flight from Tel protruding wire was found in an unattended on a baggage carousel at Aviv to London after she became agitated car left in the drop-off zone. The wire Domodedovo Airport. when her parents removed her from her turned out to be a phone charger. Baggage delivery seat and put her on their laps, following commenced yet the man crew members’ instructions. As her parents did not wake up. were not able to restrain the child, the captain alerted security and the family was 15 APRIL: WASHINGTON DC removed from the aircraft. Postal employee Douglas Mark Hughes, 61, landed a gyrocopter on 25 APRIL: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA the west lawn of the US Capitol as a Mohamud protest against finance laws. Hughes was Mohammed Maye, 36, delivering, by ‘air mail’, 535 protest letters, was shot by police one for each member of Congress. officers on the parking 5 APRIL: JAIPUR, INDIA ramp at Minneapolis St. Paul Airport after The co-pilot on board an Air India flight from allegedly behaving suspiciously and refusing Jaipur to New Delhi allegedly assaulted the to cooperate with authorities. He was captain inside the cockpit while they were arrested and taken to hospital. preparing the plane for take-off. The co-pilot was alleged to be irritated by his superior's 27 APRIL: LAGOS, NIGERIA commands. The airline claimed no physical Hundreds of Arik Airline passengers violence took place. protested at Murtala Mohammed International Airport after they could not 6 APRIL: LIHUE, HAWAII reach their destinations, including London Elizabeth Sedway, a Northern California Heathrow, Abidjan, Douala, Johannesburg, cancer patient, was removed from an Alaska Banjul and Cotonou, due to the airlines’ Airlines flight from Lihue Airport to San financial problems. The incident disrupted Jose as the airline said that she could not fly 16 APRIL: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON operations at the counter of Arik Air. without a doctor’s note. Alaska Airlines later An unnamed Menzies Aviation employee apologised and refunded her family's airfare, was banned from working on any Alaska 28 APRIL: LONDON GATWICK, UK which they say will be donated to research. Airlines flight in the future after falling asleep Actor in the cargo hold of an Alaska Air flight en Chris 7 APRIL: LONDON HEATHROW, UK route from Seattle to Los Angeles, forcing O’Dowd, 35, the plane to make an emergency landing. expressed his frustration on 17 APRIL: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Twitter that The Transportation Security Administration his three- started an investigation after an air marshal month old son had allegedly left his loaded gun in the had been toilet at Newark Liberty International body- Airport before boarding the plane he was searched at Gatwick Airport. He wrote, Actress Alyssa Milano, 42, criticised security assigned to protect in March 2015. The "Thanks Gatwick security! Some might protocols at Heathrow airport after officers airport janitor who discovered the gun think body-searching a baby and binning took 10oz of pre-expressed breast milk from reported the incident to a TSA supervisor. his bottle was over zealous and weird, but her as she passed through security. She not me! #ScaryBaby". suggested the policy should be reconsidered. 18 APRIL: DENVER, COLORADO Chris Roberts, a 28 APRIL: DALLAS, TEXAS cybersecurity A quadcopter drone flew in close proximity researcher and to a Virgin America flight as it was about to founder of One World land at Love Field. Labs, was prevented from boarding a 5 MAY: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL United Airlines flight to San Francisco after he HiFly, had tweeted, on 15th April, he had been able a to hack into the aircraft’s systems on his flight Portuguese to Denver. He claims to have hacked into the wet lease in-flight entertainment systems on various carrier, other flights and once to have hijacked an landed an aircraft's thrust management computer, briefly off-duty 7 APRIL: JAKARTA, INDONESIA altering its course. The FBI is investigating. aircraft Mario Steven Ambarita, 22, slipped past bearing airport security in Pekanbaru and climbed Saudi into the wheel well of a Garuda Indonesia Arabian Airlines’ insignia at Tel Aviv’s Ben flight to Jakarta. He was taken to hospital Gurion Airport for maintenance. Saudia and questioned by police. Authorities are then cancelled its contract with Hi Fly planning to install additional CCTV cameras after images of the aircraft in Israel were at the airport as a result of the incident. tweeted.
6 VISIT WWW.ASI-MAG.COM – NEW & IMPROVED June 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 7 MAY: RIAU, INDONESIA 11 MAY: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 13 MAY: LONDON HEATHROW, UK A flight had to be cancelled after the co- pilot failed an alcohol test before boarding the aircraft at Schiphol airport. The co-pilot, who was four times over the legal limit, had to pay an on-the-spot fine of €6,000 (as he Hundreds of people took control of was a foreign national) and was banned Palmatak airport as part of a protest against from working for 15 hours. ConocoPhillips, the US oil and gas giant which actually operates the airport, for 11 MAY: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara, 37, terminating the company’s contracts with 17 LAN Airlines workers started a protest at shared his 'horrendous experience' with an local workers. The protesters blocked Ezeiza International Airport, blockading immigration officer at Heathrow Airport via access to two parked aircraft belonging to the entrance, disrupting service and Twitter claiming the service was 'patronising Pelita Air Service. causing delays. and extremely discourteous'
8 MAY: CEUTA, SPAIN 12 MAY: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA A woman, 19, was arrested after she The allegedly tried to smuggle an eight-year-old Aboriginal boy from Ivory Coast inside a suitcase through Provisional the Moroccan-Spanish border crossing. Government (APG) made the 16 MAY: SHARJAH, UAE following media A senior Air India commander was suspended release on 12th after he tested positive for alcohol at Sharjah May 2015 (see www.apg.org.au): APG airport minutes before he was to operate an diplomat Pekeri Ruska (Goenpul/Yuggera) international flight back home. was harassed and threatened by customs officials at Brisbane international airport this 18 MAY: PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN afternoon after presenting only her Aboriginal A Jet2.com flight from East Midlands 9 MAY: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN passport which had been stamped on entry Airport was met by police upon landing A small civilian drone caused disturbance in and exit from Honiara, Solomon Islands. After due to a hijack scare after the pilot, who air traffic at Bromma airport. The incident 20 minutes of being asked repeatedly to was having problems with the conventional was reported to police who found the present an Australian passport, Australian communications channel in order to speak owner of the drone. driver’s license etc., officials used the details with air traffic control, used a channel on Ruska's Aboriginal passport to confirm intended for situations where a plane has 9 MAY: DETROIT, MICHIGAN that she was a resident of her own country. A been hijacked, The North Terminal of Detroit Metropolitan customs official then took and photocopied Airport had to be partially evacuated after a her Aboriginal passport. After being 19 MAY: GEORGETOWN, GUYANA man was identified as acting suspiciously. processed on this basis and passing through Ogle Airport Inc. issued a statement the customs gate, another official approached warning people against squatting at the 10 MAY: LONDON HEATHROW, UK her and insisted that she present an airport. It read: - “A large number of Around Australian passport, threatening that Ruska's persons have made attempts to squat on 50 luggage would be searched, and that she Ogle Airport land within the boundaries campaigners would be taken to a room and body of the Airport. (Members of) the public organised a searched by a male official. Ruska was also are warned that unlawful entry into or silent protest taunted by another customs official who interference with a Civil Aviation facility is a at Heathrow remarked several times, “Why do you do violation of the National Aviation Security airport against this? What point are you trying to prove?” Programme and Civil Aviation Regulations. the construction of a third runway saying it Ruska spent four days meeting and Ogle Airport has notified the Commissioner would increase air pollution in the area. developing contacts with key members of of Police and the Director of the Civil the West Papuan independence movement. Aviation Authority. Ogle Airport Security, 11 MAY: SINGAPORE “It makes me so angry that this happens with the support of the Guyana Police Lau Munyee’s open-letter, in which when I try to come back into my own country Force, has apprehended and removed these she criticises one of her fellow passenger's using my Aboriginal passport,” she said. persons and has destroyed the pickets they behaviour on an AirAsia flight from had placed on the Airport’s land. Ogle Singapore to Sydney on 12th April, became 12 MAY: CHIKALTHANA, INDIA Airport Security will apprehend and hand an online hit. The letter addressed to the Three people were questioned after they over to the Guyana Police Force, any person person sitting on 15A lists various things allegedly intended to send around 250gm found unlawfully entering the Airport.” such as speaking loudly, munching on smelly of a yellow powder, suspected to be TNT, crisps, and kicking the back of the seat in from Chikalthana to Gurgaon on a Jet 20 MAY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA front. She included a photo of his feet. Airways aircraft. The material turned out A man trying to board to be a powder used by car manufacturing a US Airways flight to units to paint parts. Jamaica allegedly stripped naked at 12 MAY: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Charlotte Douglas Passengers had to go through security International Airport checks again after an airport employee let as he became angry a passenger through a security checkpoint. about a flight being Both employee and passenger were overbooked. He was questioned by the police. later taken to hospital.
June 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 UNRULY 8 APRIL: DELHI, INDIA 14 APRIL: MUMBAI, INDIA PASSENGERS Vinay Kumar, 29, and Abhilash Sunil, Al Mamari Abdwaziz Abdullah Saif, 23, was 26, were arrested for allegedly smoking arrested after allegedly molesting a female 31 MARCH: ROME, ITALY on board a GoAir flight en route from crew member on board a Jet Airways flight A passenger on board an easyJet flight, en Guwahati to Delhi. They claimed that they from Muscat to Mumbai. route from Geneva to Pristina, allegedly had just wanted to check the fire alarm physically assaulted a flight attendant system inside the plane. 16 APRIL: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS because she did not serve his sandwich A female passenger on board a Southwest in a “timely manner”. The passenger had 9 APRIL: BRISTOL, UK Airlines flight from Chicago to Boston to be restrained and the plane made Two 49-year-old women and a 23-year-old allegedly stabbed a snoring fellow- an emergency landing in Rome where man were arrested after allegedly becoming passenger with a pen. The victim suffered the passenger was arrested. The victim disruptive on board a Ryanair flight prior to deep bruises. The plane returned to suffered minor physical injuries and her its departure from Bristol to Faro. Midway Airport and the woman was glasses were broken. removed from the aircraft. 10 APRIL: ATLANTA, GEORGIA 2 APRIL: TORONTO, CANADA A man on board an Air Canada 18 APRIL: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA A man was removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight en route from Toronto to A passenger who allegedly became unruly flight preparing to depart for Vancouver Atlanta allegedly attempted to choke on board an American Airlines flight en after he allegedly smoked marijuana on Oliver Minatel, an Ottawa Fury FC soccer route from Charlotte to Frankfurt was board. player with a headphone cord. Another removed from the aircraft after the plane passenger stopped the attack and police diverted to Philadelphia. 3 APRIL: JUNEAU, ALASKA arrested the assailant upon landing. David Allen 21 APRIL: HYDERABAD, INDIA Cimino, 55, Yousuf, 35, was taken to custody after allegedly allegedly smoked threatening to hijack an Air India flight from in the toilet on Dubai whilst having a conversation with one of board an Alaskan the flight attendants, using the words ‘hijack’ Airlines plane. and ‘hostage’. The crewmember reported the On arrival in issue to the pilot who alerted the Air Traffic Juneau he Control. Yousuf claimed to be playing a prank initially tried to escape but was chased with the air hostess, after she refused to pose by the arresting officers; in the ensuing for a selfie with him. struggle, a female officer suffered a wrist injury and a bite to the cheek, while a 11 APRIL: SHANNON, EIRE 23 APRIL: BIRMINGHAM, UK male officer injured his hand. A woman, 87, on board an Air Canada Rahees Iqbal, 19, allegedly became drunk flight from Frankfurt to Toronto allegedly and unruly on board an Emirates flight from 4 APRIL: BIRMINGHAM, UK became unruly and had to be restrained Dubai to Birmingham. Passengers on board a Qatar Airways by cabin crew. The woman was arrested flight from Doha to Manchester became upon landing, but was released later 26 APRIL: CALICUT, INDIA disruptive after their flight was diverted without charge. Thatethil Nijesh allegedly damaged cabin seats to Birmingham due to windy weather and threatened fellow passengers on board an conditions. The plane stayed on the 12 APRIL: LONDON HEATHROW, UK Air India flight from Riyadh to Calicut after the tarmac for five hours awaiting refuelling 45 members of the Svetlanov State cabin crew refused to serve him more alcohol and a new crew. Police officers were Symphony Orchestra, who were en route as he was alleged to be too drunk. called to calm down passengers. to Sao Paolo, were removed from a British Eventually, Qatar Airways let passengers Airways flight at Heathrow and held for 26 APRIL: MUSCAT, OMAN get off the plane and finish their journey ten hours in a waiting room for allegedly Two men on board an Oman Air flight from to Manchester by bus. being drunk. Later they boarded a flight London to Muscat allegedly started a fight to Rio de Janeiro and were taken to Sao over legroom; one man, who is alleged to 5 APRIL: MOSCOW, RUSSIA Paolo by bus. have hit the other with a shoe, was arrested A drunk passenger became unruly on upon landing. board an Emirates flight en route from 12 APRIL: HAMILTON, BERMUDA Dubai to Moscow. The man was arrested Jamie Richardson, 38, and Daniel Taylor, 26 APRIL: BRISTOL, UK upon landing. 37, caused the diversion of a Thomson A 29-year-old Airways flight, en route from London supporter (or, at least, 5 APRIL: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Gatwick to Cancun. The Captain diverted wearing a club shirt) of Brandy Williams was to Bermuda after one of the men threw Welsh rugby team arrested at Nashville peanuts and a pound coin at cabin crew Rhydyfelin RFC had to be International airport and the other started hitting himself on the removed form an EasyJet flight en route from after allegedly head with clenched fists. They were later Majorca to Bristol. He was one of a group of becoming unruly at the fined US$3,000 (ca. £1950). intoxicated men going on a stag weekend. gate prior to boarding a Southwest flight. 13 APRIL: NANTONG, CHINA 27 APRIL: HURGHADA, EGYPT Four women on board a Shenzhen Airlines A man on board a Thomas Cook Airlines 6 APRIL: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA flight from Dalian to Shenzhen, which flight from Hurghada to Manchester had A passenger was removed from a diverted to Nantong, were arrested and to be removed from the plane after he Southwest Airlines plane after allegedly sent to prison for five days after they allegedly threatened fellow passengers, making racist comments, using the ‘b-word’ started a fight over a reclining seat, shouting “I'll kill anybody who gets near me at a fellow-passenger. hitting and pulling each other’s hair. on the plane”.
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Leialoha Watanabe Frank Bruno Diaz, 27, allegedly became is alleged to have drunk and made a bomb threat on board a 28 APRIL: MUMBAI, INDIA assaulted her JetBlue flight en route to New York, causing Mohammad Anwar ul Haque was 15-month-old the plane to return to Santo Domingo. Screening Equipment removed from an Air India flight prior to daughter on board its departure from Mumbai to Riyadh for an Alaska Airlines 15 MAY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA allegedly using abusive language and flight from Anchorage to Honolulu. Shai Kaiman, a 17-month-old toddler threatening fellow passengers. Passengers reported that she swore at her travelling with his family on a US Airways flight daughter, smacked her in the back of the from Fort Lauderdale to St Louis had to leave EU TSA 28 APRIL: SHANNON, EIRE head, pinched her and pulled out bits of the plane after allegedly becoming a safety Jody Bochner, her hair. risk on board; he was seated on his mother’s Certified Qualified 28, smoked an lap and kept sticking his foot out into the aisle e-cigarette, and 6 MAY: LONDON GATWICK, UK whilst the aircraft was taxiing for departure! assaulted a crew A man, 34, on board a Thomas Cook flight member whilst from Glasgow to Dalaman, which was 18 MAY: DELHI, INDIA intoxicated on a forced to divert to London Gatwick, was Harish Kumar was arrested after he allegedly Norwegian Air arrested for being drunk and disruptive. sexually harassed and verbally abused a Shuttle flight flight attendant on board a Jet Airways flight from London to Florida. He had to be 7 MAY: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM en route from Varanasi to Delhi. restrained and the flight diverted to A Japanese passenger, Ichikawa, was PASSENGERS Shannon. He was fined €1000 (ca. £720). found smoking in the toilets of a Vietnam 20 MAY: WASHINGTON DC Airlines flight en route from Nagoya to Ásmundur Einar 29 APRIL: ANTALYA, TURKEY Ho Chi Minh City. He was later fined VND Daðason, an Icelandic Four men, who had been denied entry to 4million (ca. £120). MP for the Progressive Turkey, made threats against the Thomas Party and personal High Sensitivity & High Discrimination EMDs Series Cook flight they were put on to return to 9 MAY: PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN assistant to Prime London. They were removed from the flight Six men on board a Ryanair flight from Minister Sigmundur and eventually flown back to London on 2nd Glasgow to Palma de Mallorca were Davíð Gunnlaugsson May; they were arrested on arrival in Gatwick. arrested after allegedly becoming drunk allegedly became and disruptive. drunk and vomited on 30 APRIL: LYON, FRANCE fellow-passengers on board a WOW air A passenger on board an EasyJet flight from 9 MAY: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA flight to Washington DC. He denies the Liverpool to Naples allegedly became unruly, Dietmar Ross, 54, became intoxicated accusations claiming he wasn’t drunk but causing the diversion of the plane to Lyon. The and disruptive on board a Malaysia Airlines had an upset stomach. The incident became LIQUIDS passenger was met by police upon landing. flight to Colombo, causing the plane to a hit on Twitter. return to Kuala Lumpur. Ross later pleaded 30 APRIL: HOUSTON, TEXAS guilty to endangering the life of a cabin 21 MAY: LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA Four passengers on board a United crew member, Phuah Soh Kin, as well as Christopher Kwok, 21, was arrested after Airlines flight from London to Houston breaking flight rules; he was later sentenced allegedly becoming unruly on board a Jet were arrested after allegedly drinking and to one month prison. Blue airline flight from Boston to Long becoming disruptive during the flight. Beach Airport. 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APRIL 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 2 9 FEBRUARY: NANJING, CHINA 18 FEBRUARY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA HIJACK A Chinese man opened the Lisa Piasecki, 32, emergency exit of a China Southern Airlines (better known as porn aircraft preparing to depart from Nanjing star Tory Lane) 24 MARCH: DIGNE, FRANCE to Nanning. He simply boarded the aircraft, allegedly assaulted Germanwings flight 4U9525, en route walked over to the emergency exit, opened flight attendants on from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, crashed it, and then sat down and gazed outside board a Delta flight in the Alps. Within days of the incident as other passengers were boarding the from Atlanta to Los it was revealed that the co-pilot aircraft. He was later jailed for 10 days. Angeles whilst Andreas Lubitz probably intentionally intoxicated. She was flew the aircraft into a mountain having restrained and, after locked the Captain outside the flight landing, assaulted the deck. Lubitz is then believed to have arresting officer. instigated a descent which culminated eight-minutes later in the loss of the 20 FEBRUARY: MIAMI, FLORIDA aircraft and all 150 passengers and crew Two men aboard an American Airlines flight on board. It would appear that Lubitz to Los Angeles started a fight that ended had been suffering bouts of depression, up one man saying, "I am not a bomb and I was on medication and had actually won't explode." All passengers were taken been signed off work by his doctors. 10 FEBRUARY: AARHUS AIRPORT, DENMARK off the plane while crews performed a A Ryanair flight en route from Riga to security sweep. One of the passengers was Dublin was forced to make an emergency detained and later released. landing in Aarhus after an intoxicated man, stripped semi-naked, began punching the 22 FEBRUARY: VARNA, BULGARIA cabin walls. The man had to be restrained A female by fellow passengers. passenger became aggressive towards a flight attendant on board an Israir flight from Tel Aviv to Varna after he did not respond to her demand for UNRULY a chocolate bar from the duty-free cart as PASSENGERS he was helping another passenger. Other passengers then joined in the verbal attack on the flight attendant. Video of the 2 FEBRUARY: DENVER, COLORADO incident became an online ‘hit’. Nicki Gazlay and her five-month-old son were removed from a Frontier Air flight 25 FEBRUARY: CHONGQING, CHINA bound for Memphis following an argument 11 FEBRUARY: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM A female passenger, Wang, was on board with a crewmember over an Ergo baby Ta Ngoc Tuan, 49, was found smoking in an Air China flight from Nanning to carrier. Gazlay allegedly called the flight the toilets of a Vietnam Airlines flight en Beijing when she claimed the plane was attendant “the queen of this airplane.” route from Sydney to Ho Chi Minh City. about to explode. The aircraft diverted He was later fined VND4 million (approx. to Chongqing. GBP £126). 1 MARCH: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 13 FEBRUARY: VIENNA, AUSTRIA A man was caught drinking his own alcohol Six heavily intoxicated Slovakian nationals and smoking on a Jetstar flight en route were arrested at Vienna Airport after from Melbourne to Perth resulting in the smoking on board an Austrian Airlines flight flight turning back and the police removing bound for Moscow; they threatened to the passenger from the flight. blow up the plane. 13 MARCH: JFK, NEW YORK 16 FEBRUARY: NAIROBI, KENYA An intoxicated passenger’s behaviour Ji Xiadying, 26, from China was arrested at resulted in an American Airlines flight, en 5 FEBRUARY: OTTAWA, CANADA the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for route from Miami to London, diverting to A man, 43, was arrested for his unruly smoking while on board a Qatar Airways JFK. The passenger had to be restrained by behaviour on a flight to Ottawa. flight from Doha. federal air marshals on board.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe April 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 14 MARCH: URUMQI, CHINA 19 MARCH: LONDON GATWICK, UK 31 MARCH: ROME, ITALY Dong She, 42, was arrested for causing A woman, 46, was arrested on suspicion of An easyjet flight from Geneva to Pristina a 30-minute delay to a Urumqi Airlines being drunk after she allegedly stripped diverted to Rome after a male passenger plane, preparing to depart Urumqi for naked on a British Airways flight from allegedly punched a flight attendant as he Zhengzhou, when he opened an emergency Kingston, Jamaica and then started was angry about the amount of time it was exit moments before take-off. He claimed performing a sex act on herself in public. taking for him to be served a sandwich. that he had opened the door by mistake as he thought the handle was a handrail that he 20 MARCH: MANILA, PHILIPPINES could grab onto for support. Actress Melissa Mendez, 50, was SABOTAGE removed from a Cebu Pacific Air flight & ATTACKS bound for Mindanao for allegedly punching a flight attendant and passenger after she 31 JANUARY: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY refused to move from a seat reserved for Leonidas M. Sandoval, 29, was arrested another passenger. The plane was forced after allegedly beating up a homeless man to return to Manila where Mendez was with a chair as the man was sleeping at escorted off the aircraft. Newark Airport. After arriving at the airport and missing his flights, Sandoval allegedly beat the unidentified man and then threw a chair at Port Authority police. 14 MARCH: MIAMI, FLORIDA Karen Halnon, a 2 FEBRUARY: CAIRO, EGYPT 52-year-old sociology Three bombs were defused at Cairo's Professor from Penn airport after being discovered outside State University, was Terminal 1, which handles international caught smoking on an flights. One of the bombs was found in a American Airlines flight parking lot used by tour buses. A fourth from Nicaragua to dummy device was also found. Miami. When 24 MARCH: GUWAHATI, INDIA challenged she started making political Two passengers on board an IndiGo flight 2 FEBRUARY: CAMPINAS, BRAZIL statements, shouting that, “The United States from Delhi to Guwahati were caught by A heavily armed criminal gang carried out has declared war on Venezuela. Venezuela has fellow passengers after they were allegedly a heist at Viracopos International Airport in been declared a national security threat.” found to be taking photos of the cabin crew Campinas (100 kilometres north-west of Sao Halnon had allegedly lit the cigarette in members and female passengers. Paulo) and fled with a stash of microchips solidarity with her idol, Cuba’s Fidel Castro. reportedly worth at least US $2 million 26 MARCH: MUMBAI, INDIA (approx. £1.34 million). No one was injured 15 MARCH: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA Akash Jain, 30, opened the emergency exit in the heist. South Korean pop singer Kim Jang-hoon, and jumped 15 feet down onto the tarmac 38, was fined for smoking inside a lavatory after his Jet Airways flight from Chandigarh 8 FEBRUARY: ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO of a Korean Air flight en route to Incheon landed in Mumbai. A FedEx flight, en route from Memphis International Airport from Paris on 15 to Albuquerque, was on final approach to December 2014. Kim will have to pay 1 29 MARCH: DUBLIN, EIRE Albuquerque's runway when a laser beam million won (approx. GBP617), or complete Mariusz Cicheki, 34, tried to put his hand illuminated the cockpit causing eye injuries 10 days of manual labour. up a flight attendant’s skirt on an Aer Lingus to both of the pilots. The crew managed flight from Warsaw to Dublin. He was later a safe landing, however, both pilots were 16 MARCH: WASHINGTON DULLES, VIRGINIA fined €600 (approx. GBP £438). taken to hospital with eye injuries. A man on a United Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Denver allegedly 30 MARCH: VANCOUVER, CANADA 13 FEBRUARY: DALLAS, TEXAS rushed the cockpit shortly after take-off A woman on a WestJet flight en route from Brent James Taff, a 34-year-old whilst screaming “Jihad, Jihad”. He was Toronto to Vancouver was arrested on arrival prisoner being extradited from Utah restrained by other passengers and the for having allegedly thrown a sandwich at, and to Oklahoma via Dallas, attacked his aircraft then returned to Dulles. then physically attacked, a flight attendant. armed escort in an airport toilet. The escort shot Taff, wounding one of his 18 MARCH: TOLUCA, MEXICO 30 MARCH: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH hands. Another officer, positioned Some of the film crew working on Kevin C. Matthews, outside the toilets, then managed to Spectre, the latest James Bond movie, 48, allegedly molested a arrest Taff as he ran away in through became unruly on board a HiFly Airbus three-year old on a Delta the terminal. Both Taff and the armed A330 which had been specially chartered flight from Chicago to escort required hospital treatment. to fly 150 stunt men, camera crew and San Diego. The boy was technicians from Stansted Airport, UK, travelling standby with to Mexico. They are reported to have his parents and, as a vomited and urinated in the aisles and result, all three family verbally abused crewmembers. members were seated separately; the boy ended up seated between Matthews and another man. Matthews allegedly entertained the child initially but when he fell asleep a female passenger noticed Matthews allegedly touching his crotch. Matthews was arrested during a layover in Salt Lake City.
April 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 16 FEBRUARY: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA 5 MARCH: MIAMI, FLORIDA JUDGEMENTS Extremist militants linked to Al-Shabaab Julissa & ARRESTS group killed four officials working for the Magdalena Mogadishu airport in a drive-by shooting. Maradiaga-Iscoa, The gunmen fled from the heavily guarded 33, allegedly 2 FEBRUARY: LAGOS, NIGERIA area immediately. crashed her car Samuel Ogundeyi was arrested at the into a parked Execujet terminal at Murtala Muhammed 17 FEBRUARY: ZINTAN, LIBYA Miami-Dade Airport after he was discovered by pilots in A Tripoli-based Islamist militia in Libya Police patrol car the tyre compartment of an aircraft. carried out an air strike on the western at Miami International Airport in an apparent Libyan town of Zintan, targeting the airport. attempt to smash through the airport doors 4 FEBRUARY: ISTANBUL, TURKEY Limited damage was caused near the into departure concourse D. Maradiaga- Ben Gal, a runway and there were no casualties. Iscoa told the arresting officers that she had 57-year-old Israeli, a bomb. was arrested on 19 FEBRUARY: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY his arrival in Katrina Dansby, 41, and Nephatira 18 MARCH: TULSA, OKLAHOMA Istanbul from Tel Dansby, 24, were arrested and charged A man, allegedly intoxicated and Aviv after a Pegasus Airlines flight with the aggravated assault of a police aggressive, rammed his vehicle through the attendant accused him of stealing a bag officer, resisting arrest and disorderly gates at Tulsa International Airport. of dry soup mix. Gal was kept in prison for conduct. The women’s vehicle was three days but, on his release, Pegasus blocking two lanes of traffic outside admitted that the bag of soup had been Terminal A at Newark and were asked found under Gal's seat. They then claimed to move on by the officer who they then they had called the police to meet the allegedly verbally abused and physically flight due to Gal’s behaviour. assaulted; she required hospital treatment for trauma to her face and knee. 5 FEBRUARY: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Nine men, including Ses'khona People's Rights Movement leaders Andile Lili and Loyiso Nkohla, who had been accused of dumping faeces at Cape Town 19 MARCH: ADEN, YEMEN International Airport on 25 June 2013 Two artillery rounds struck the airport were found guilty of contravening the resulting in its temporary closure. Civil Aviation Act.
20 MARCH: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 6 FEBRUARY: LONDON, UK Richard A verdict of 20 FEBRUARY: LABRAQ, LIBYA White, 63, was ‘accidental death’ Rockets were fired at eastern Libya's Labraq shot after was pronounced airport, targeting one of the oil producer's attacking two by the coroner in few functioning air hubs. Labraq has been TSA officers relation to the the main gateway into eastern Libya since with wasp death of Hikmet Benghazi airport stopped working in May spray and a Komur, a due to fighting. machete at 32-year-old Louis Turkish man, who 25 FEBRUARY: OCALA, FLORIDA Armstrong had stowed away Juan Ceron, 23, was New Orleans on a British Airways aircraft in July 2011 in found tampering International an attempt to be with his Portuguese with a plane in the Airport. friend Luisa de Silva in London. Komur was hangar at Ocala Carrying six homemade explosives, he divorced and had told his son that he International entered the airport, and walked down a would only be away for a few days. He Airport. The PC-12 security line. When challenged by a TSA froze to death. plane which Ceron officer he sprayed that officer with wasp was allegedly trying spray. Then he struck another officer with a 12 FEBRUARY: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA to steal, in order to machete. White was taken to hospital, but Cho Hyun-ah, 40, was sentenced to fly to Chicago, was he died the next day. one-year in prison for her behaviour on worth $2.5 million (approx. £1.68 million). a Korean Air flight on 5 December 2014. Damage was estimated as being 28 MARCH: HUDAYDAH, YEMEN Cho, a Director of Korean Airlines, had approximately $200-$300, and included A Saudi-led international coalition demanded the flight return to the gate oxygen masks being pulled down and life launched a series of airstrikes destroying at JFK as she was angry at having been vests having been inflated. the airport runway in the western Yemeni served macadamia nuts in a bag rather city of Hudaydah. Residents in the airport than on a dish. 3 MARCH: TRIPOLI & MISRATA, LIBYA area had to leave their homes because of Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally the bombings. 15 FEBRUARY: LAGOS, NIGERIA recognised government carried out air Blessing Dugbe, Samuel Asuquo and strikes on Mitiga International Airport, 29 MARCH: UK Isaac Ajakaiye, all members of staff of located in northeast Tripoli, and on Misrata British Airways announced that tens of Arik Air, were arrested for allegedly Airport, 220 km east of the capital. No thousands of its frequent flyer accounts stealing fuel from an Arik aircraft casualties were reported, and damage was had been hacked but that no personal parked at the Murtala Muhammed limited to the facilities’ runways. information had been viewed or stolen. International Airport.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe April 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 17 FEBRUARY: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 9 MARCH: BUNDABERG, AUSTRALIA 20 MARCH: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Q A, 29, who had attacked flight attendants Kamal Praveena Galketiya, 40, was fined Two Pakistani nationals were arrested and tried to open a cabin door on an Emirates AU $650 (approx. GBP £335) for his violent for kidnapping three Bangladeshi flight on the 12 June 2014 was jailed for a year. behaviour towards airport security staff at nationals at O.R. Tambo Airport – one Bundaberg Airport in May 2014. He had on 29th January and two on 15th 21 FEBRUARY: FUJAIRAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES refused an explosives swab, accused staff March. The two Pakistanis had collected Conrad Clitheroe, 53, Gary Cooper, 45, and of being racist and then became aggressive a ransom of R150,000 (approx. £8510) Neil Munro were arrested after the authorities when screeners tried to stop him from and were going to collect a further found them noting down numbers of aircraft pushing his way through to the boarding area. R20,000 (approx. £1135) at McDonalds outside Fujairah airport. The plane-spotters in Xavier Street in Ormonde when they were visiting the site as it is known to be a 9 MARCH: ISLEWORTH, UK were arrested. location where many rare aircraft, including Manjit Singh Sidhu, 38, was jailed vintage models, are parked. They did not take for four months for being intoxicated 25 MARCH: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY any photographs but their writing down of and harassing a 14-year-old girl on a Jet Joseph details appeared suspicious. Airways flight from New Delhi to London A. Bruno, a on 18 April 2014. United Airlines 23 FEBRUARY: MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS employee, Kevin Jay Bruce Sr, 44, was arrested after he allegedly stole scaled a perimeter fence and started walking $576 (approx. airside at Minneapolis Airport without GBP £390) in a security badge. A UPS employee had cash from the raised the alarm initially when he saw Bruce, wallet of a wearing a dark hoodie and hat, looking passenger left through the airport fence from the outside in a tray to be X-rayed. When the victim and trying to jump over it close to some picked up his wallet, he realised the money snow removal equipment. 9 MARCH: LAGUARDIA, NEW YORK was missing and reported the incident to Frank Egan, 36, was charged with using the police who were able to identify the 3 MARCH: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA a laser that injured three pilots on two culprit by reviewing CCTV footage. Steven Gregory, a Qantas pilot who separate flights at LaGuardia Airport: massaged the breast of a female co-worker two police officers flying in a helicopter 26 MARCH: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES while intoxicated lost his unfair dismissal and the pilot of a commercial Air Canada An Egyptian passenger, 40, was jailed for claim in the Fair Work Commission. The flight. The three pilots who suffered eye one year for assaulting a Moroccan flight incident took place in February 2014 during injuries were all taken to hospitals, treated attendant on a flydubai flight from Dubai a two-night stopover in Santiago; Gregory and released. to Alexandria. The aircraft had to divert to was dismissed for serious misconduct with Saudi Arabia on 26 November 2014, but five weeks’ pay in lieu of notice. 11 MARCH: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES the Saudi authorities transferred him back A 45-year-old Sri Lankan passenger was to Dubai. 3 MARCH: JFK, NEW YORK jailed for five years for molesting a 13-year- A man, 26, was arrested after he was old Singaporean girl while she slept on a 27 MARCH: NEW YORK, USA discovered sleeping in the cockpit of a flight in November 2014. Three days after the loss of JetBlue flight at JFK. He had allegedly Germanwings flight 4U9525, Clayton flown in on a flight from the Dominican 11 MARCH: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Osbon, 52, filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Republic, failed to disembark and then Adriana Anabela Monterroso-Santos, Airways and claimed US $14.9 million entered the cockpit. 42, living in a homeless shelter near San (approx. GBP £10 million) for failing to Francisco International Airport, allegedly ground him because, he claims, it knew he 6 MARCH: DUBLIN, EIRE walked onto a runway and waved her was incapable of flying. Osbon was a pilot Liudas Vaisvilas, 51, was given a three-year arms at a plane. She was swiftly taken into on a flight from New York to Las Vegas in suspended sentence for having wrestled custody. Monterroso-Santos reportedly 2012 when the other pilot was forced to a teenage girl to the ground and sexually wanted to stow away onto a Guatemala- lock him outside the flight deck after an assaulted her on 10 April 2014; the bound aircraft. apparent breakdown. Lithuanian claimed he had been having flashbacks to his time with the Russian 13 MARCH: STANSTED AIRPORT, UK military in Siberia and believed that he was A man, 21, was arrested and taken to a protecting his girlfriend from falling bombs. local hospital for a medical check-up just after driving into the security barrier outside 6 MARCH: WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT Enterprise House at Stansted Airport. Frank Westervelt, 45, was arrested for allegedly stealing 16 MARCH: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA more than $1 million worth of Hailemedhin Abera vintage Pratt & Whitney Tegegn was sentenced aircraft parts from to 19 years and six Connecticut Corsair in months in prison for Wallingford on 18 November 2014. The hijacking the Ethiopian organisation refurbishes vintage airplane parts Airlines flight he was and sponsors science and engineering piloting on 17 February programmes at high schools and colleges. The 2014. The aircraft was en route from Addis 29 MARCH: FREDERICK, MARYLAND parts stolen included one which had been set Ababa to Rome when Tegegn locked the Laurie Katz, 37, was arrested at Frederick to be donated to the Smithsonian Institute's Captain outside the flight deck and then flew Municipal Airport after she walked onto the Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. to Geneva where he later claimed asylum. runways.
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FEBRUARY 2015 VOLUME 21 ISSUE 1 SABOTAGE 14 DECEMBER: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA 12 JANUARY: MUMBAI, INDIA & ATTACKS Mortar rounds landed within the grounds of Nina Patel slapped Mogadishu International Airport. a Turkish Airlines manager 3 DECEMBER: DEIR EZ-ZOR, SYRIA who told her that she was Islamic State launched an offensive against the 21 DECEMBER: JAKARTA, INDONESIA not allowed to smoke in the military airport of Deir ez-Zor. A suicide bomber A 26-year-old Chinese tourist, who had just Arrivals area of Terminal 2. drove himself into the airport and blew up the arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Patel had just disembarked a car at the entrance, killing around 30 government asked two security guards for advice as to where Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. The Russian troops, while other militants launched raids to to get some sleep. The two men, one of whom national was let off after she wrote a letter of capture other parts of the airport. was a Supervisor, then allegedly drugged the apology to the airline. woman, took her to a nearby hotel, raped her 3 DECEMBER: BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS and held her hostage there for two days. She 12 JANUARY: UNITED STATES Eric Brandhorst, 53, allegedly hit a 74-year-old was found, crying, back at the airport on 23rd It was announced that American Airlines female security employee who had tried to December. The security guards were arrested. and United Airlines had both fallen victim to prevent him taking an oversized bag onto a In an interview with The Jakarta Post, the cyberattacks in December 2014 when thieves flight to Denver. airport’s spokesman, Yudis Tiawan, apologised had stolen passwords and usernames (from and said that "the harshest punishment for a third party) and used them to break into 4 DECEMBER: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA the two security guards is being dishonourably thousands of frequent fliers accounts, booking A car bomb detonated targeting a UN convoy discharged from their jobs" but that they also flights and upgrades. United reported that leaving Mogadishu International Airport resulting faced more than 12 years of imprisonment. three dozen accounts had been used. American in at least 4 people being killed. Airlines said that 10,000 accounts had been 25 DECEMBER: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA hacked, but in only two cases had a reservation 10 DECEMBER: ESSEX, UK Gunmen gained entry to Mogadishu been made or tampered with. International Airport killing at least 7 people. 20 JANUARY: DELHI, INDIA 27 DECEMBER: OSH, KYRGYZSTAN A 34-year-old senior official working in the Five armed criminals, disguised as Kyrgyz cargo terminal of Delhi airport was arrested for security officers, abducted a businessman and allegedly thrashing and molesting a woman stole approximately US $5 million (around £3.28 who had not accepted his friend request on million) from him at the VIP section of Osh Facebook. International Airport. 26 JANUARY: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA It was reported that, on 4th or 5th November, 29 DECEMBER: LAGOS, NIGERIA half an aircraft hangar had been stolen from A passenger allegedly stole 28 million naira North Weald Airfield. The hangar had not yet (approx. £95,000) from a Bureau de Change been constructed and the components, weighing operator on board a Med-View Airline flight. 12 tonnes, were in storage. The victim had the cash in his hand luggage but noticed it was missing prior to the flight’s departure for Abuja. On investigation, the crew admitted that a passenger had got off the aircraft claiming to have left his phone Malaysia Airlines had its official website at the check-in counter; one flight attendant hacked by a group calling itself ‘Official Cyber accompanied him back to the terminal but the Caliphate’. The website showed images of a man suddenly disappeared. Malaysia Airlines aircraft and an image of a lizard wearing a top hat, monocle and tuxedo, 4 JANUARY: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA surrounded by the messages '404 - Plane Not 11 DECEMBER: CAGAYAN DE ORO, PHILIPPINES The al-Shabab claimed responsibility Found' and 'Hacked by Lizard Squad - Official An attempt for the deaths of four people after they had Cyber Caliphate'. to assassinate targeted a convoy of intelligence officers near a Philippine Mogadishu’s international airport. A VBIED congressman, driven by a suicide bomber was used. Vicente Belmonte, was made at Laguindingan Airport, when a van pulled up near the politician's vehicle and the occupants opened fire. The congressman was taken to the hospital but two drivers and two of his bodyguards were killed in the attack.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe February 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 26 JANUARY: BAGHDAD, IRAQ 6 DECEMBER: PHOENIX, ARIZONA 16 DECEMBER: GUANGZHOU, CHINA A flydubai aircraft was hit by three or four bullets A 33-year-old man caused an American Airlines Xia, a male passenger on a China Southern as it landed in Baghdad, damaging the fuselage flight, en route from Dallas to Los Angeles, to be flight en route from Hefei to Guangzhou, was and, according to some reports, lightly injuring diverted to Phoenix after he had started yelling arrested for his unruly behaviour in which two passengers on board. Emirates Airlines, profanities and uttering racial slurs. he had shouted at a female flight attendant Air Arabia, Etihad, flydubai, Turkish Airlines and and bruised her arm. Initially, Xia had seated Middle East Airlines all suspended their flights to 7 DECEMBER: POPRAD, SLOVAK REPUBLIC himself in Business Class despite only Baghdad the next day. Despite telling airport security guards that he purchasing an Economy ticket but he then had bombs and grenades in his baggage, a went to the toilet and asked for hot water 27 JANUARY: TRIPOLI, LIBYA 30-year-old Slovak man was allowed to board a while the plane was taking off. When told to sit Gunmen stormed the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Wizz Air flight to London Luton. The cabin crew, down he became violent. killing nine people, five of whom were foreigners however, demanded he be removed when he and three of whom were Buraq Air crew continued to tell passengers on board that he 17 DECEMEBER: CHONGQING, CHINA members. Buraq Air later suspended all flights had explosives. The airport staff had decided he An argument broke out between two women for two days. was probably drunk and that the threats were on board an Air China flight en route from not genuine, which was indeed the case. Chongqing to Hong Kong resulting in one trying 29 JANUARY: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN to slap the other. Some reports indicate the Three US contractors and an Afghan national 8 DECEMBER: XI’AN, CHINA dispute was over a crying baby, others over the were killed in a shooting at a military base A passenger opened a door and deployed the reclining of a seat back. attached to Kabul International Airport. The emergency slide because he wanted to get off gunman was wearing the uniform of the Afghan a China Eastern flight, which had just arrived in security forces; the Taliban, who claimed Xi’an from Sanya, faster. responsibility for the attack, also claimed he had managed to infiltrate the security forces. 11 DECEMBER: BANGKOK, THAILAND A Thai AirAsia flight, en route from 30 JANUARY: SIERRA VISTA, ARIZONA Bangkok to Nanjing, had to return to Bangkok Jeffrey Grewell, 41, scaled the perimeter after a Chinese passenger threw hot water and fence at Sierra Vista Municipal Airport, poured instant noodles at a flight attendant. A man had aviation fuel over several aircraft and attempted requested hot water for his girlfriend’s instant to light the fuel with a cigarette lighter. He also, noodle cup but was told that he had to wait unsuccessfully, attempted to get one person to until the plane reached cruising attitude until he fly him to Minnesota by threatening him with could be served. He became irate and started a hatchet. He was arrested and charged with throwing food in the aisle and stamping on it. armed robbery, criminal damage and three The crew then served him the hot water, but counts each of attempted arson and disorderly when he was charged 60 Thai baht (approx. conduct with a deadly weapon. £1.20) for it another argument commenced as 17 DECEMBER: HALIFAX, CANADA the man wanted his change in Chinese currency Nomantangwa and an official receipt. His girlfriend then threw Angel Babhekile the hot water at the flight attendant and, when Johansson, 30, she demanded an apology, the man threatened wife of Ivanhoe to blow the plane up. When the Captain elected Mines CEO Lars- to return to Don Mueang Airport the girlfriend Eric Johansson, started hitting the windows and threatened to allegedly assaulted jump out of the airplane. The female passenger two flight was ordered to pay the injured flight attendant attendants on board an Air Canada flight en 50,000 Thai baht (approx. £1,000) and fined 200 route from London Heathrow to Toronto which UNRULY baht (approx. £4); the boyfriend and two other resulted in the aircraft diverting to Halifax. PASSENGER passengers travelling with them were fined 100 Johansson was later fined nearly $6,000 baht (approx. £2) each. (around £3,160) and ordered to reimburse Air 3 DECEMBER: LONDON, UK Canada $9,400 (around £4,940) for the cost of The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, diverting the plane. became one of the heroes on board a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to London 18 DECEMBER: PIARCO, TRINIDAD when he helped flight attendants try to calm A police officer was removed from a Caribbean down an intoxicated passenger who had become Airlines flight to Tobago after he refused to turn violent. Johnson is reported to have sat next to off his mobile phone; he was travelling on duty. the man and tried to defuse the situation. Whilst A National Security helicopter was then used to his attempts failed and the crew were forced to transport him to Tobago where, on board, he physically restrain the offending passenger, the was allowed to use his phone. Mayor was applauded for his efforts. 12 DECEMBER: PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA Duke Ueli Viena was arrested after he allegedly 20 DECEMBER: MUNICH, GERMANY became racially abusive towards the crew of a An intoxicated 54-year-old man tried to open the Hawaiian Airlines flight en route from Honolulu emergency door of a plane as it was approaching to Pago Pago. Munich airport from Helsinki.
14 DECEMBER: HANGZHOU, CHINA 20 DECEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK A first-time flier opened the emergency exit of a A Delta Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv was Xiamen Airlines aircraft as the plane was about to delayed when a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish take-off in order to get some air. men refused to sit next to women.
February 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 22 DECEMBER: PHOENIX, ARIZONA 7 JANUARY: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 22 JANUARY: AMRITSAR, INDIA Dr. Peter Steinmetz, Korean singer Bobby Kim, 41, allegedly Natrajan Bhavani Shankar, 58, was arrested for a brain research sexually harassed a flight attendant on a Korean allegedly molesting an Air India flight attendant doctor who is also an Air flight from Seoul to San Francisco. on board a flight from Delhi to Amritsar. outspoken critic of the TSA, was allegedly 24 JANUARY: HEATHROW, UK removed from a Delta A passenger attempted to open one of the flight departing to emergency exit doors 15 minutes into a Minneapolis after flight from Hong Kong to Heathrow. He was engaged another restrained by an Irish farmer on board, assisted passenger in a by other passengers. The flight continued to conversation about airport security and London as planned. started quoting terrorism statistics. 27 JANUARY: BHUBANESWAR, INDIA 23 DECEMBER: CEBU, PHILIPPINES Ravindra Kenny Barrosa, 31, allegedly caused the Jhunjhunwala delayed departure of a TigerAir flight to 10 JANUARY: KUNMING, CHINA allegedly tried to Manila after he became unruly on board, After hours of delay and frustration for grope the young claiming to be unable to breathe and then the passengers on board, a man, Zhao, and woman seated in running to the front of the aircraft to open a woman, Li, opened three emergency exits front of him on the door. When security came to open the on a China Eastern Airlines flight which was board an Indigo door, he fled from the aircraft, urinating in delayed from departing for Beijing due to flight from Mumbai his pants as he did so, before being taken heavy snow. Li was a tour guide and found to Bhubaneswar. into custody by the airport police. guilty of inciting the passengers to become The woman unruly on board and was given 15 days decided to confront 23 DECEMBER: LAHORE, PAKISTAN detention. Zhao was given the same penalty the man verbally and filmed it herself. Five passengers on board a Pakistan for opening two of the emergency doors. The recording, in which the man even International Airline flight from Beijing to Lahore apologises, was loaded on YouTube by a were arrested and accused of misbehaving with friend. (See: https://www.youtube.com/ an air hostess. watch?v=nD1XfpJZ338). A subsequent clip was also uploaded of her interviewing the 25 DECEMBER: HONG KONG man in arrival in the airport in which he Xu Miaoqing was arrested after he had flown repeatedly asks for forgiveness. from Bangkok to Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific flight. Miaoqing had lit a cigarette 27 JANUARY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA in the aircraft toilets and claimed that he Jonathan did not know it was illegal to do so as he Marois, 41, was illiterate. He was later fined HK$2,000 allegedly assaulted (around £170). 14 JANUARY: BEIJING, CHINA two male American Yang was arrested for smoking on board a Airlines flight 25 DECEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK Hainan Airlines flight from Chicago to Beijing. attendants on board A man threatened to hang himself with his own an aircraft prior to belt in the toilets on board a JetBlue flight en 14 JANUARY: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND its departure for route from Oakland to JFK. Two men started fighting on board a Thomson Ft. Lauderdale; one flight preparing to depart for Fuerteventura. flight attendant was 25 DECEMBER: ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO They were removed from the aircraft and removed from the aircraft on a stretcher and A Delta flight, en route from Atlanta to Los arrested. sent to the hospital. Angeles, diverted to Albuquerque after a passenger became disruptive. 16 JANUARY: KUWAIT 30 JANUARY: MUMBAI, INDIA A Kuwaiti man issued a bomb threat against Two intoxicated Saudi Arabian passengers, 1 JANUARY: MANCHESTER, UK a Jazeera Airways flight due to operate from Alshammari Hameed Muzawim and Alsahir M A Qatar Airways flight, en route from New York Kuwait to Beirut because he was angry at Mubarak, verbally abused, and misbehaved to Qatar, diverted to Manchester due to unruly being disembarked for smoking. He was later with the crew of a Malindo Air flight before passenger incident. sentenced to ten days in prison. its departure to Kuala Lumpur. They were removed from the flight. 3 JANUARY: SOUTHEND, UK 16 JANUARY: DENVER, COLORADO A woman and her partner were arrested for Wes having allegedly slapped the easyJet’s cabin Scantlin, the INCIDENTS crews' bottoms whilst intoxicated on a flight from frontman of Faro to Southend. They were released with a Puddle of Mudd, 4 DECEMBER: KANO, NIGERIA police caution. was arrested Following Nigeria’s seizure of a Russian after allegedly aircraft bound for Chad, which had been 4 JANUARY: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS attempting to found to be carrying arms, protesters A JetBlue flight, en route from New York to ride a baggage from the Northern Consensus Movement Salt Lake City, diverted to O’Hare after a carousel into a took over Kano Airport demanding an woman started fighting with her husband. security restricted explanation from government as to its She was moved away and seated near some area at Denver relationship with Chad and why arms were police officers, who she spat and kicked at. International being permitted transit through Nigerian She was eventually restrained. Airport. airports.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe February 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 8 DECEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK 13 DECEMBER: UKRAINE 19 DECEMBER: FORT McMURRAY, CANADA Cho Yang-ho, the 40-year-old daughter The airports of Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Fort McMurray International Airport was of the Chairman of Korean Air and herself Vice Zaporizhia were closed for security reasons from evacuated after a passenger made a comment President of Cabin Service with the airline, 00.00 on 13th December until 16th December. about a bomb. was so upset with the crew of a Korean Air The closure was due to reports that civilian flight preparing to depart New York for Seoul airplanes could be under threat due to the that she demanded the aircraft return to possible deployment of surface-to-air missiles by the gate and the Purser be off-loaded. Cho rebels from the anti-terrorist operation zone. Yang-ho had become angry that she had been served macadamia nuts in a plastic bag rather 16 DECEMBER: HANOI, VIETNAM than on a plate as she expected in Business The crew of a Vietnam Airlines flight, en route Class. Following a media storm regarding her from Ho Chi Minh City to Vinh, squawked 7500 behaviour, she resigned from her post two days (rather than 7700) in error whilst reacting to a later. However, South Korea’s People's Solidarity technical fault on board. ATC thought the aircraft for Participatory Democracy demanded further had been hijacked and saw the plane descend 24 DECEMEBER: JFK, NEW YORK action be taken against the woman who had from 35000 to 13000 feet. On board, oxygen A Dynamic brought the country into disrepute; on 30th masks were deployed due to the sudden drop Airways flight was December she was arrested. in cabin pressure. The aircraft’s Czech Captain overbooked by Pechanec Marek, his co-pilot Do Hoang Nam approximately 100 and five other crew members were suspended. seats. When the unlucky passengers 16 DECEMBER: ZAPORIZHIA, UKRAINE were told that they The security restriction on flights to Zaporizhia wouldn’t be able Airport, originally put in place on 13th to fly until 27th December, thereby not being December, was extended until 20th December home for Christmas, some of them commenced and then again until 23rd December. a protest inside the terminal building.
17 DECEMBER: CUSCO, PERU Riot police had to use tear gas to repel 10 DECEMBER: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND thousands of protesters, demonstrating against A Southwest Airlines flight was forced to make newly drawn inter-province boundaries, who an emergency landing after a fire detector were marching towards the airport armed with alarmed when a passenger smoked an sticks and throwing stones. One person was e-cigarette in one of the aircraft's toilets. killed and five were injured.
February 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 26 DECEMBER: BANGKOK, THAILAND 19 JANUARY: TAICHUNG, TAIWAN JUDGMENTS Two women started fighting in the check-in A man was shot dead at Taichung & ARRESTS queue for a Thai Lion Air flight at Bangkok's Don Airport, and two others were wounded, when Mueang Airport after one claimed the other had the man grabbed a police officer’s gun after he 11 DECEMBER: NEWPORT NEWS, VA queue-jumped. had been stopped on his motorbike because Eric David Carroll, 19, (left) and Roderick his daughter, who was riding with him, was not Cody Johnson, 24, (right) were arrested after 1 JANUARY: PHUKET, THAILAND wearing a helmet. they allegedly started a fire outside Newport An in-company labour dispute turned News Airport. violent, and required police intervention, after hundreds of Burmese and Cambodian labourers working on the expansion of Phuket International Airport started fighting with each other, resulting in a fire destroying worker accommodation. Both nationalities were employed by the airport’s main contractor, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction Co Ltd. The company was ordered to organise new accommodation for the 400-500 Cambodian and 370 Burmese 12 DECEMBER: DELHI, INDIA workers and ensure that the groups, along 25 JANUARY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON A ground handling company employee, Shravan, with 1000 Thai workers (who had not been Two aircraft were evacuated on their arrival at was arrested for molesting a woman outside involved in the fighting), were housed well Seattle-Tacoma International Airport due to Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport. away from each other. security concerns. When she called for help passengers in the vicinity rushed to her help and allegedly beat 7 JANUARY: COLUMBUS, OHIO 26 JANUARY: WASHINGTON DC, USA him up. Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul- An intoxicated government employee Rasheed, 41, was fatally accidentally crashed a DJI Phantom quadcopter 12 DECEMBER: BRISTOL, UK shot when he attacked a into a tree on the White House lawn in the Lech Solarczky, 28, police officer with a knife middle of the night. was sentenced to eight after he had tried to buy months in prison for having an airline ticket with fake tried to smuggle fireworks ID and was challenged by onto a flight to Faro. two officers as he returned Solarczky was travelling to his illegally parked car. to Portugal to watch a The bomb squad later found containers of frozen European Championship urine in the man’s vehicle. qualifier between Poland and Gibraltar. He had previously been banned 10 JANUARY: OAXACA, MEXICO from football and fined in Poland for possessing Teachers occupied three airports in the flares in stadiums. state of Oaxaca – one in Oaxaca itself 27 JANUARY: CLUJ, ROMANIA along with airports in Huatulco and Puerto Claudiu-Gabriel Costin managed to bypass 13 DECEMBER: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Escondido – as they protested against security and board a Wizz Air aircraft at Cluj R&B singer Jeremih, along with two educational reforms. Airport. Costin had gone to the airport because friends, was arrested after attempting to he was missing his girlfriend, Aline Haskil, who forcibly open a door to a boarding ramp at 10 JANUARY: PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO was in London; he found that all flights to Newark International Airport in order that A WestJet flight landed in Puerto Vallarta as London were sold out so decided to board an some other friends, who were running late, planned despite the fact that Twitter followers aircraft anyway. He was found, on a flight that could join them on their flight to Phoenix. believed the aircraft had been hijacked. It seems was actually scheduled to go to Spain, when that the rumour that an act of aerial piracy was airport security saw a flashing light in the cockpit. underway had been started with a tweet from a Costin was taking photographs of himself and flight-tracking website which showed WestJet uploading them onto Facebook to show his flight 2154 from Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta girlfriend where he was. Costin claimed that squawking 7500. he was invited into the cockpit by a pilot who offered him sexual favours. 14 JANUARY: PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA A Facebook page promoting Air Koryo, a North Korean airline, was hacked by a group claiming to be Islamic State jihadis. They branded North Korea’s President, Kim Jong- Un, as a "crying pig".
31 JANUARY: LAGOS, NIGERIA 15 DECEMBER: WEST TARAKA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Samuel Ogundeyi was found in the wheel well 13 people were arrested, including a 13-year- an aircraft operated by Tag Aviation which old schoolboy, in connection with an armed was parked in the Execujet hangar at Murtala robbery which had taken place at Nadzab Muhammed Airport. The teenage stowaway Airport two weeks earlier, during which they had was found to be carrying two handsets without kept passengers hostage for hours whilst they SIM cards. ransacked the airport’s offices.
8 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe February 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational 15 DECEMBER: HANOI, VIETNAM 20 DECEMBER: HEATHROW, UK 31 DECEMBER: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Nguyen Van Toan, 27, was arrested for Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Prince Scott Clark was fined £1000 (and ordered a breach of the peace at Noi Bai International Charles's celebrity god-daughter, was to pay the penalty at £20 per week) for his Airport. He arrived at the airport on a arrested at Heathrow after she became upset intoxicated behaviour on an easyJet flight prior motorbike, insulted a security guard, tried to when people started taking photographs to its departure from Glasgow to Amsterdam get a ticket for a flight to Da Nang (domestic) of her and, as a result, she tried to run in February 2014. He had been escorted off at the international check-in, jumped over the back through the security checkpoint. She the aircraft. counter when directed to the domestic check- was later cautioned, but released without in and then started rolling around on the floor charge despite telling the Police to “f@@@ 4 JANUARY: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA complaining of abdominal pains. off”. Palmer-Tomkinson was travelling to A Japanese tourist was arrested at Bandaranaike Switzerland to go skiing although, following International Airport after he allegedly assaulted years of drug abuse, she is reported to have an airport official whilst intoxicated. become somewhat of a recluse and hardly ever leaves her home because of anxiety. 6 JANUARY: SANTIAGO, CHILE The Police in Santiago arrested four people with suspected links to the heist of more than US $7million (around £4.6million) at Santiago’s airport in August 2014. The gang’s ring-leader is believed to be Alexis Ñiñoles, who was arrested as he left a shopping mall; the police found 60 million pesos ($100,000, around £63,000) in cash inside his vehicle.
16 DECEMBER: LONDON, UK Colin Kaler, 52, Terrence Hughes, 53, and Stuart Tribelnig, 39, were acquitted of causing the death of 46-year-old Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan deportee, at Heathrow Airport 21 DECEMBER: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES in 2010. The men were G4S employees An intoxicated sailor, who had groped a escorting Mubenga on a British Airways flight Romanian stewardess whilst also hugging and out of Heathrow. Mubenga suffered cardio- trying to kiss a Filipina flight attendant on an respiratory collapse whilst restrained. Take-off Emirates flight in February, had his sentence was aborted and Mubenga was taken to halved from one year to six months. 7 JANUARY: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS hospital where he later died. It was reported that the Royal Dutch 22 DECEMBER: SINGAPORE Marechaussee at Schiphol Airport had arrested 16 DECEMBER: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Guo Jinquan, a 27-year-old Guest four men back in December as they were in the Robert John Coppack, 42, was sentenced to Services Assistant, pleaded guilty to using his process of stealing cargo valued at € 2 million five months of community confinement and mobile phone to film female flight attendants (around £1.5 million). ordered to pay $53,000 (around £35,000) in changing in toilets at Changi Airport on restitution to US Airways for having groped numerous occasions between November 2013 8 JANUARY: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND three people on flight from Philadelphia to and January 2014. Frederic Depre, 42, was fined £1000 after London on 13th May last year. admitting being drunk in charge of a gun and assaulting a woman at Aberdeen International 18 DECEMBER: DUBLIN, EIRE Airport, having disembarked off a private flight Liudas Vaisvilas, 51, pleaded guilty from Belgium. Having passed through Customs, to sexually assaulting a teenager at Dublin Depre went to an ATM machine where he Airport, having wrestled her to the ground touched the woman standing in front of him on in public, on 10th April 2014. He had been the bottom. When she called for help, Depre released following the incident, but then was found to be in possession of a shotgun, assaulted another girl at Eddie Rocket's which had been collected by one of his friends Diner in the city later the same day. His from the luggage carousel. defence was that his mother, and another 23 DECEMBER: AUSTRALIA relative, had recently died and that he Monique Neeteson-Lemkes, a former Jetstar 10 JANUARY: DABOLIM, GOA, INDIA had missed a flight home to Lithuania for flight attendant, was awarded nearly AU $40,000 Bassappa Chandappa Lamani, 35, and Razak a funeral. He claimed not to have slept (just over £20,000) in compensation for her Mehboob Sheik, 31, were arrested for stealing for five or six days, drunk vodka, and was sacking in December 2012 following an incident in US $500 (around £330) and Russian roubles having flashbacks to when he worked in the which she had found a fake bomb on a domestic (together amounting to Rs 1.3 lakh, around Russian army. flight to Darwin. She had wanted the Captain to £1400) from the handbag of Bozhko Oleksandra divert the flight to Mount Isa when she found a as it passed through the X-ray machine. It was green circuit board, embedded in a Plasticine-like only an argument between the two baggage substance, with protruding wires and a cylindrical loaders that alerted Police to their involvement. battery in the toilets during the flight. Her request They later admitted stealing the cash and to was refused and she was later dismissed. having hid it in the airport toilets. However, the cash had disappeared by the time the toilets 24 DECEMBER: OTTAWA, CANADA were inspected and the Ukrainian passenger A man became violent at the airport and bit one was forced to return home as she had no further of the arresting officers. source of money.
February 2015 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 9 12 JANUARY: SASKATOON, CANADA 29 JANUARY: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 3 JANUARY: KOLKATA, INDIA A 29-year-old man was arrested for allegedly Jose Mendoza, 40, was arrested after he was Air India received an anonymous telephone stealing a megaphone on a WestJet flight en found walking along the runway. call at a city booking office from a Bengali- route from Toronto to Sakatoon. speaking man who said, “Air India aircraft will 30 JANUARY: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM be hijacked". 13 JANUARY: LAGUARDIA, NEW YORK Nguyen Xuan Duong and Nguyen Minh, both A US FAA inspector was arrested after a firearm of whom were employees of Vietnam Air 6 JANUARY: MUMBAI, INDIA was found in his carry-on bag. Petrol Co. Ltd., were dismissed after they were A note was found scribbled on a wall in the caught stealing 789 litres of aviation fuel worth men's toilet at Chhatrapati Shivaji International 14 JANUARY: ROME, ITALY about US $700 (around £460). Duong was a Airport which read, 'CSI ATTECK BY ISIS DATE A Niki Aviation flight, scheduled to fly from driver and Minh was a pumping technician; 10/01/15’. Rome to Vienna, was the subject of a bomb they drove a fuel tanker truck to the perimeter threat issued by a Slovenian passenger. of Tan Son Nhat Airport and, using a Another passenger saw the man holding an 100m-long fuel pipe, they transferred fuel to a unusual item, described in some reports as a truck parked outside by two other men. pedometer, in his hand; when asked what it was he alleged to have replied that is was a “remote control to detonate a bomb". THREATS 9 JANUARY: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 22 JANUARY: PERTH, AUSTRALIA 9 DECEMBER: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN A bomb scare resulted in TigerAir flights being Brenden Tume, 23, was fined AU $10,000 Parts of Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport were disrupted at Melbourne Airport. (just over £5000) and ordered to pay more evacuated after a bomb threat indicated that than AU $48,000 (approx. £25,000) to Virgin luggage destined for one flight might have 24 JANUARY: ATLANTA, GEORGIA Australia for his intoxicated behaviour on a contained an explosive device. A Twitter user, who goes by the name King flight in July 2014 when he became abusive Zortic, sent a message to Delta saying, "I have a and threatened to bring the plane down. 10 DECEMEBER: ROCHESTER, NEW YORK bomb on one of your planes, but I forgot which An Israeli man was arrested after he allegedly one when I left the airport. Can you help me 22 JANUARY: RAIPUR, INDIA started shouting anti-American comments and find it? It was from Portland to Atlanta, I forgot Aishwarya Soni was arrested after she allegedly made threats, including "I have a nuclear bomb the flight number, though. It was something like joked that she was carrying a bomb. in my pocket", at the airport checkpoint. DL156 or DL1556 I forgot the order." The same message was sent to Southwest Airlines saying 23 JANUARY: NEBRASKA, USA 14 DECEMBER: COCHIN, INDIA that a bomb was placed on SWA2492. Both Cynthia Raju Abraham telephoned the airport and Southwest Airlines flight 2492 from Milwaukee Anderson, 56, claimed that a person would be landing at the and Delta flight 1156 from Portland were was arrested after airport with a bomb in his baggage; he was later searched on arrival in Atlanta. she allegedly arrested for the hoax call. drowned a 3-week-old 14 DECEMBER: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Doberman Robert Laudick, 25, was arrested at Louis puppy in the Armstrong International Airport after allegedly airport toilets at telling a TSA agent that he had a bomb during a Central Nebraska pat-down search. Regional Airport after she was told 15 DECEMBER: ZURICH, SWITZERLAND that she couldn't take it on the plane as dogs An anonymous caller issued a bomb threat 29 JANUARY: TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES younger than eight weeks old are not allowed which resulted in the partial evacuation of Zurich Archie Velora, a Philippine Airlines passenger to fly. Airport which, in turn, caused many flight delays. travelling to Manila, was arrested after he joked that he had a grenade in his bag as he 26 JANUARY: AYR, SCOTLAND 25 DECEMBER: DALLAS, TEXAS went through security at Daniel Z. Romualdez Jamie Jackson, 30, was fined £250 for smoking A Delta Air Lines flight, en route from Los International Airport. All passengers were on board a Ryanair flight from Corfu to Prestwick Angeles to Florida, diverted to Dallas due to disembarked from his flight whilst AirAsia Zest on 28th August 2014. a threat. and Cebu Pacific flights were diverted.
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DECEMBER 2014 VOLUME 20 ISSUE 6 SABOTAGE 23 OCTOBER: DALLAS/FORT WORTH, 1 DECEMBER: NADZAB, & ATTACKS TEXAS PAPUA NEW GUINEA A group of 30 armed men armed with pistols, rifles, 28 SEPTEMBER: LOMÉ, TOGO homemade guns and machetes attacked Nadzab One person was killed, and others were injured, airport. Nine airport security guards were held during an armed robbery in the parking area of hostage while the attackers looted food and office Lomé-Tokoin Airport. equipment. The attackers also tried, but failed, to break into Air Niugini’s safe. 2 OCTOBER: BENGHAZI, LIBYA 12 Libyan soldiers were killed, and 60 people McCleish Christmas Benham, 27, had to be were injured, in a double suicide bombing at subdued by other passengers and a police INCIDENTS a military checkpoint near Benghazi's Benina officer in Terminal C after he physically attacked International Airport. a stranger, allegedly because he was wearing 30 SEPTEMBER: MALMO, SWEDEN a pink shirt. Benham is reported to have made Olympiakos football fans, arriving to watch their 5 OCTOBER: KOLKATA, INDIA homophobic comments whist kicking the man in team play Malmo FF, became involved in fights Rajira Bibi alias Rumi and Amina Bibi were arrested the groin and hitting him on the head. The incident with the Police after one of the Greek supporters in connection with a bombing in Burdwan on 2nd had begun when Benham started arguing with was arrested for shoplifting at the airport. One fan October and, when questioned, revealed that they a gate agent when she asked him if he had been was arrested. had been planning to blow up Kolkata airport. drinking; he became increasingly loud prompting the man in the pink shirt to tell him to calm down 2 OCTOBER: CLEVELAND, OHIO 7 OCTOBER: PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN as the police had been called. Shannon Thomas filed a lawsuit against Four men, carrying machine guns and hand grenades, the TSA, claiming $750,000 in damages, for fired at an aircraft landing at Peshawar airport. their allegedly having spilled his mother’s ashes whilst they were searching his suitcase. Thomas 10 OCTOBER: MANCHESTER, UK was flying to Puerto Rico with the ashes in an An armed robbery took place in an airport car urn in order to scatter them at sea as per her park. Two staff members were injured by the final wishes. When he reached his destination robbers who were wearing balaclavas and were 27 OCTOBER: MOMBASA, KENYA he opened his bag only to find the ashes all over armed with metal bars. A taxi driver was attacked and killed by three men the bag and a note from the TSA indicating that armed with machetes near the main entrance to they had searched the bag. Thomas had bought 11 OCTOBER: SWANSEA, WALES Moi International Airport. the urn especially to withstand the journey and The main gates, made of iron, at Swansea Airport had padded it with clothing. were stolen in a night time raid. 5 NOVEMBER: SANA’A, YEMEN An explosion took place near the main gate of Sana’a International Airport.
16 NOVEMBER: BAGHDAD, IRAQ A car bomb exploded at a security checkpoint on the perimeter of Baghdad’s international airport complex. Five people were wounded. ISIL is believed to be responsible.
22 NOVEMBER: BOSTON, 14 OCTOBER: BELGRADE, SERBIA MASSACHUSETTS A European Cameron Shenk, a 26-year-old Championship football 23 OCTOBER: JOHANNESBURG, Harvard student, was arrested after match between Serbia SOUTH AFRICA he fell through the ceiling of the and Albania had to A cash-in-transit vehicle was ambushed while women’s toilets at Boston’s Logan be abandoned after a leaving OR Tambo International Airport’s cargo Airport. Shenk was naked at the drone flew over the pitch area. A Mercedes Benz car was intentionally driven time, having undressed in the toilets carrying an Albanian nationalist banner. Serbian into the van, injuring security guards inside. The before climbing into the ceiling and hiding in a space players tried to pull down the banner and then the armed robbers then escaped with an undisclosed there. Having fallen through, Shenk tried to escape but pitch was invaded by fans, many of whom attacked amount of money. ran into an 84-year-old man outside the restrooms; he the Albanian players. tried to choke the man with the man’s walking stick and, when some JetBlue employees tried to intervene, Shenk bit off part of the elderly man's ear. He was eventually overpowered by police officers, who he also assaulted, and was charged with attempted murder, assault and battery of a police officer, assault and battery of a person over 60, and a lewd and lascivious act and malicious destruction of property over $250.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe December 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 15 OCTOBER: ZURICH, SWITZERLAND 26 OCTOBER: LOS ANGELES, 20 NOVEMBER: ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE A 23-year-old psychologically unstable cyclist CALIFORNIA It was reported that four airport security guards managed to ride onto the runway having ignored An American Airlines flight, were dismissed after it was revealed that Gervinho, a security guard’s request to stop at an airside which was about to depart the Roma player and member of Côte D’Ivoire’s entrance gate. Air traffic was suspended at the for London, returned to the national football team, had paid them bribes airport for about 40 minutes. gate after a passenger found to smuggle a woman onto the private jet he a network entitled 'Al-Quida was about to board at Felix Houphouet Boigny 19 OCTOBER: FRANKFURT, GERMANY Free Terror Nettwork' when airport in Abidjan. AS Roma had chartered the Thousands of people joined an anti-noise trying to connect to the private jet to bring Gervinho back to Italy after an protest near Frankfurt airport. Normally protests internet. The flight ended up international match, but he arrived at the airport take place inside the terminal every Monday, but being delayed for 17 hours. with a female friend who was not authorised this one took place on the streets outside. to travel. Gervinho allegedly managed to bribe 31 OCTOBER: PORTUGAL guards to get her on board but the aircraft’s pilot Portuguese fighter aircraft were scrambled to refused to depart with her on board. intercept, identify and accompany two Russian aircraft out of international air space under Portuguese jurisdiction.
31 OCTOBER: CANADA A Virgin Atlantic flight, en route from London to JFK, was forced to divert to Canada after it inadvertently transmitted the hijack code. 20 OCTOBER: NIAMEY, NIGER The runway at Diori Hamani International 6 NOVEMBER: KIMBE, airport was damaged when an MQ-9 Reaper drone PAPUA NEW GUINEA crashed on landing. A man wielding a machete ran onto the tarmac at Hoskins Airport in Kimbe in an attempt to stop his wife boarding an Air Niugini flight. His wife did disembark the flight, but the man was arrested.
21 NOVEMBER: ULAN-UDE, BURYATIA, RUSSIA An investigation is underway after Diana Tolstova, 30, collapsed and died at the gate at Ulan-Ude Airport, in the Republic of Buryatia, in southern Russia. It is thought possible that the archway 20 OCTOBER: MOSCOW, RUSSIA metal detector may have interfered with her Reports emerge that a six-year-old pacemaker. Tolstova went through the archway boy, Leon Bogdanov, was identified by CCTV and reached the gate area where she started to operators riding the baggage handling system at 10 NOVEMBER: ACAPULCO, MEXICO feel dizzy and suddenly collapsed and died in her Sheremetyevo Airport. Thousands of people blocked the access husband’s arms. to Acapulco airport in protest at the authorities' handling of the case of 43 students, missing since September, who had been reportedly killed, and then incinerated, by members of the Guerreros Unidos drugs cartel.
23 OCTOBER: CASABLANCA, MOROCCO It was reported that the suitcases of a number of VIPs 24 NOVEMBER: REYKJAVIK, ICELAND were stolen upon their arrival in Casablanca airport. A 42-year-old overseas tourist suffering mental The President of Côte D’Ivoire,å Alassane Ouattara, health problems, who had been reported missing together with a number of Mauritanian Ministers and a by the relatives he was staying with on 23rd Mauritanian delegate for food security were all victims 14 NOVEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK November, was found dead on Miðnesheiði of theft. The alleged thieves were arrested as one of The pilots of both a Virgin Atlantic flight arriving outside the fence of Keflavík International Airport. the suitcases contained a phone which was tracked from London and a Delta flight arriving from San down. 62 airport employees, including baggage Diego reported close encounters with a drone 27 NOVEMBER: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND handlers and security officers, were suspended. during landing. Reports emerge that an alcohol-initiated incident involving seven off-duty members of 19 NOVEMBER: JAKARTA, INDONESIA Air New Zealand cabin crew and members of Sri Wahyuni, 42, was found dead in her Honda car New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team warranted parked at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Her investigation by the airline. The team was body had started to decompose. It later emerged returning to New Zealand on a flight from Los that the car had been there since 15th November and Angeles following their successful European tour, had been driven there by a friend of Wahyuni, who is but it was the off-duty crewmembers behaviour believed to have strangled her following an argument. that was allegedly suspect.
December 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 27 NOVEMBER: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA UNRULY 11 OCTOBER: HONOLULU, HAWAII Teenage members of the 'roofer' movement, who PASSENGERS Michael Tanouye, 29, was take on challenges to breach security at buildings arrested after the Japan Airlines and landmarks in Russia, managed to get airside at 28 SEPTEMBER: BRAZIL flight on which he was flying St. Petersburg's Pulkovo International Airport and Kurtley Beale, a member of the Australian had to return to Honolulu as a pose for pictures of themselves which they later rugby team, allegedly became abusive to a result of his allegedly sexually posed on the VK social networking site. member of the team’s management on board assaulting a female passenger in a flight from Johannesburg to Brazil. Beale the aircraft’s toilets. The woman was dropped from playing in the team’s match had managed to press the emergency call button against Argentina a few days later. He was then to summon crew assistance but they couldn’t get fined AU$3,000 by the Australian Rugby Union into the toilet in question as Tanouye was blocking for breaching team protocols. the door; they eventually removed the hinges to gain access.
12 OCTOBER: GANDER, CANADA Actress Harlee McBride’s intoxicated behaviour resulted in her Air France flight, en route from New York to Paris, diverting to Gander.
15 OCTOBER: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Zachary Johnson, 33, was arrested and charged with 29 SEPTEMBER: HANOI, VIETNAM inappropriately touching Angela Truong Thi Thien Trang, 34, attacked a security Meador, 31, on a Southwest Airlines officer at Hanoi’s Noi Bai airport, tearing his shirt in flight from Orlando to Nashville. the process, after he refused to allow her to board a VietJet Air flight with excessively large carry-on 19 OCTOBER: NAKHON SRI THAMMARAT, 28 NOVEMBER: VIENNA, AUSTRIA baggage. She was later fined VND 7.5 million THAILAND A Turkish Airlines flight en route from Frankfurt (approx. US$350). A man was removed from an Air Asia flight to Istanbul was escorted to Vienna after the before its departure to Bangkok after he became pilot inadvertently triggered a hijack alarm 4 OCTOBER: SINGAPORE aggressive when challenged over the size of his whilst he was managing a pressurisation An Etihad flight en route to Brisbane was forced to hand baggage. problem. return to Singapore after an Australian passenger became aggressive, damaging a seat and biting a 19 OCTOBER: VIENNA, OHIO 29 NOVEMBER: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA fellow passenger on the arm. Joshua Marshall, 18, became unwell on an Malaysia Airlines was forced to apologise for Allegiant flight from St. Pete-Clearwater Airport to sending out a somewhat insensitive Tweet 6 OCTOBER: SUNSHINE COAST, AUSTRALIA Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport; he claimed saying, "Want to go somewhere, but don't know A passenger was removed from an aircraft to have Ebola, prompting an emergency response. where? Our Year-End Specials might just help!" bound for Sydney when he became involved in Marshall is reported to be bipolar. an argument with crew over the size of his hand 29 NOVEMBER: JAIPUR, INDIA baggage. 20 OCTOBER: IMPHAL, INDIA Some passengers on a Jet Airways flight from Ningthoujam Momocha, 21, was arrested for Mumbai to Jaipur flight became physically sick 6 OCTOBER: LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY assaulting a flight attendant on a Jet Airways flight and angry having been served chicken patties Brian Lawson, 36, from Pune. they believed to be vegetarian. The catering became unruly on an aircraft company had incorrectly marked the boxes in taxiing to the runway. The 21 OCTOBER: JFK, NEW YORK which the patties were contained. aircraft returned to the gate A group of ultra-religious Jews caused the delay of where Lawson was arrested. a Delta Airlines flight to Tel Aviv after they opted to 1 DECEMBER: OAXACA, MEXICO disembark rather than sit next to members of the As had happened in Acapulco on 10th opposite sex. November, protests concerning the 43 7 OCTOBER: PHILADELPHIA missing student resulted in approximately Lisa Carter-Knight was denied boarding a JetBlue 22 OCTOBER: EAST MIDLANDS, UK 1,500 protesters blocking access to Oaxaca's flight after allegedly becoming argumentative at A man became unruly on board a Ryanair flight Xoxocotlán International Airport for the gate. from Malaga, claiming that he had bombs approximately four hours; at least two flights on him and throwing lit cigarettes around were cancelled. 8 OCTOBER: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA the aircraft. He had to be restrained after he Vivian Tu Banh, 31, was arrested for threatening punched an elderly man. another passenger on board a United Airlines- Skywest flight, en route from Houston to 25 OCTOBER: YEKATERINBURG, Miami, prompting it to land at Louis Armstrong RUSSIA International Airport Victoria Lopyreva (the 2003 Miss Russia) 10 OCTOBER: BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS was removed from Edmond Alexandre, 60, was arrested and charged an Aeroflot flight in with interfering with the crew of an American Yekaterinburg prior Airlines flight whilst en route from Miami to Paris. to its departure to The crew were responding to a dispute over a Moscow. She allegedly reclining seat between Alexandre and another refused to comply with passenger. The flight diverted to Boston. crew instructions.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe December 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 27 OCTOBER: DENVER, COLORADO 8 NOVEMBER: KATHMANDU, NEPAL 23 NOVEMBER: JOHANNESBURG, Vadym Pecherskyi, 42, was arrested for allegedly A family was removed from a SpiceJet flight SOUTH AFRICA groping two flight attendants, putting one in a preparing to depart for Delhi after P. K. An intoxicated passenger urinated in the aisle of a head lock and repeatedly trying to kiss them on a Maheshwari, 67, allegedly slapped a flight Mango Airlines flight, en route from Port Elizabeth Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta. attendant. It was reported that the family had to to Johannesburg, after he was told that he could return home by bus as they could not afford new not use the toilets during take-off. Apart from 27 OCTOBER: DEER LAKE, CANADA plane tickets. being arrested on arrival, he was also ordered by John Carter Cash, the 44-year-old son of the crew to clean up his own mess. Johnny Cash, was arrested for stripping down to 10 NOVEMBER: ISTANBUL, TURKEY underwear in the middle of Deer Lake Airport, A passenger was removed from a Turkish 24 NOVEMBER: BERMUDA Ontario, whilst intoxicated. Airlines flight preparing to depart for Ashkhabad A Thomas Cook flight, en route from Manchester after he started shouting that he had a bomb to Cuba, diverted to Bermuda after an intoxicated attached to his body. A mass could be seen passenger - Mohammed Khelya - assaulted flight beneath his clothing, but it later turned out to attendants and had to be restrained. Khelya was be a bottle of alcohol. travelling on his honeymoon. He was later fined $2,000 for being drunk on the aircraft and another 10 NOVEMBER: SHANNON, EIRE $1,000 for his abusive behaviour towards the crew. Dolores O'Riordan, the lead singer of Irish rock band The Cranberries, was arrested for 26 NOVEMBER: HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT allegedly attacking an air hostess on an Aer Lingus Rachel Boerner, 29, and flight from New York. O’Riordan, the arresting her 80lb pig, Hobey, which 28 OCTOBER: NAIROBI, KENYA police officer and the flight attendant all required was allowed on board as Joel Mulinge, 28, hospital treatment following the incident, the her emotional support pet, attempted to open the door latter having sustained an injury to her foot were removed from a US of a RwandAir aircraft after (believed to be a fracture). Airways flight after it began the crew refused to serve defecating on the floor and him alcohol. Mulinge had squealing uncontrollably. The woman then started also tried to gain access to shouting at the pig for being disobedient. the cockpit. He was arrested on arrival in Nairobi and later sentenced to three months in prison.
30 OCTOBER: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM Sergei Samokhin, 32, became unruly on board a Vietnam Airlines flight en route from Moscow to Ho Chi Minh City. He had to be physically restrained after he allegedly assaulted a flight attendant. 12 NOVEMBER: KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT It was reported that a 38-year-old man, who had 30 OCTOBER: DUBLIN, EIRE just arrived at Kuwait International Airport, was A 56-year-old Italian man was arrested after he arrested for harassing and attempting to molest showed the crew on an Aer Lingus flight from a Dutch flight attendant whilst intoxicated. Milan to Dublin a plastic cup marked with the words ‘ATTENTIONE EBOLA’. 18 NOVEMBER: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA A 47-year-old man was arrested at 28 NOVEMBER: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM 5 NOVEMBER: CEBU, PHILIPPINES Katunayake Airport for allegedly sexually Two women and a man were removed from a Arnold Go, assaulting a woman on a Sri Lankan Airlines Vietnam Airlines flight prior to its departure for 42, was removed flight from London. Hanoi. The women, one being the man’s former from a Cebu Pacific lover and the other his current wife, were seated flight preparing to 20 NOVEMBER: THAILAND either side of the man when the ex-lover slapped depart Mactan- An intoxicated ‘farang’ assaulted a the wife who retaliated by kicking out. The ex-lover Cebu International flight purser on Bangkok Airways flight. He is managed to get the wife’s high heeled shoe and Airport for Butuan reported to have held the woman down on use it as a weapon to attack the wife. Vietnam City after he told the floor, put his hands around her throat, Airlines later fined the two women VND 7.5 million a flight attendant ripped her shirt off and then tried to remove (approx. $350). that he could not place his carry-on baggage in his own trousers. Passengers intervened the overhead baggage compartment because it when the other crew members failed to contained an explosive device. restrain the man.
6 NOVEMBER: VIJAYAWADA, INDIA AP Assembly Speaker Dr Kodela Siva Prasada Rao was alleged to have become aggressive, rude and threatening towards the cabin crew on an Air India flight from Hyderabad to Vijayawada.
December 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 JUDGEMENTS 22 OCTOBER: DUBAI, 30 OCTOBER: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND & ARRESTS UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Christine Hawea was sentenced to 100 hours A British man was ordered to have a health community work for threatening airport staff 1 OCTOBER: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA evaluation as a result of his behaviour on board when, on 1st May, she had arrived at the airport 19 A 26-year-old man was arrested for making an Emirates flight from London to Dubai in June. minutes before her flight and was told she could a hoax bomb threat call to King Shaka The man had allegedly been found eating food of not check in. She then became aggressive and International Airport. the floor of the aircraft and then started throwing started making comments about having a bomb. food at passengers. He called the flight attendant 2 OCTOBER: ATLANTA, GEORGIA who intervened a sex slave and threatened to kill 3 NOVEMBER: ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO Derrick Weems, 23, was arrested for running her and chop her up if she did not give him more Benjamin Wenzl was arrested after disembarking naked around Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson alcohol. a Southwest flight after a flight attendant saw him International Airport. put two lifejackets into his hand baggage. 23 OCTOBER: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND Billy Green, 39, was jailed for three months for 4 NOVEMBER: LEWES, UK lying about having a bomb in his luggage at Serena Meade and Karen Wildman were jailed Aberdeen International Airport on 20th June. for six and eight months respectively for their intoxicated behaviour on a British Airways flight 25 OCTOBER: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY to Tunisia on New Year’s Eve which resulted in the Devender Singh, 62, was reported to have been Captain diverting to Lyon. They had been abusive sentenced to eight months in jail for groping the to crew, sworn repeatedly, and lit cigarettes. woman seated next to him on board a flight from 4 OCTOBER: STANSTED, UK Houston to Newark in March. 7 NOVEMBER: MANILA, PHILIPPINES Martin Marine, 46, caused £1,200 damage to Don Alfredo Gutierrez was arrested after he security doors at Stansted Airport when he forced 27 OCTOBER: KARACHI, PAKISTAN climbed into the landing gear well of a JetStar his way into a restricted area whilst intoxicated. He The Police arrested four men allegedly involved aircraft about to depart for Osaka; he was seen as was later ordered to pay £800 in compensation to in planning and financing the attack on Karachi he ran towards the aircraft. the airport but was not fined. International Airport in June which left 38 dead. 16 NOVEMBER: PERTH, AUSTRALIA 7 OCTOBER: SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA 28 OCTOBER: KARACHI, PAKISTAN A 54-year-old Austrian man was arrested after he Darryl Dangerfield, a 49-year-old Sarmad Siddiqi, Nadeem (a.k.a. Burger), Asif assaulted two Customs officers at Perth Airport Shreveport Regional Airport Zaheer, and Master Essa were arrested in conjunction when they stopped him to check his baggage. security guard, was arrested for with the attack against Karachi Airport on 8th June. shooting at a taxi at the airport on 19th August. THREATS
11 OCTOBER: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA A bomb threat telephoned through to the Police 9 OCTOBER: BELGRADE, SERBIA resulted in flights being grounded flights at Ted A 24-year-old employee of the Public Customs Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The Depot was arrested for stealing a large quantity alleged caller was later apprehended. of weapons from a warehouse at Nikola Tesla International Airport in June. 28 OCTOBER: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 23 OCTOBER: KOLKATA, INDIA A Ukrainian passenger who had become A threat was emailed to aviation officials in Kolkata 10 OCTOBER: HONOLULU, HAWAII intoxicated and then violent on board an Emirates indicating that suicide bombers would attempt Joshu Osmanski, a 39-year-old pilot who had flight from Singapore to Dubai in February was to target an Air India flight from Ahmedabad to been fired by Cathay Pacific, plead guilty to jailed for one year and fined 1000 Dirhams. He Mumbai on 24th October and from Mumbai to wearing his old pilot’s uniform in order to bypass had tried to molest Filipina and Romanian flight Kochi on 25th October. security at Honolulu International Airport. attendants and to enter the flight deck. 25 OCTOBER: KELOWNA, CANADA 17 OCTOBER: SHENZHEN, CHINA A man was arrested for having allegedly made a A 49-year-old threat against a WestJet flight bound for Calgary. woman, named Wang, was 2 NOVEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK arrested for Air France flight 11 was evacuated after a hijack threat. swindling money from passengers at 22 NOVEMBER: MALÉ, MALDIVES Shenzhen airport. A Flyme flight, en route from Malé to Baa Atoll She is reported Dharavandhoo Island, returned to Malé after a to have told a passenger that she wanted to passenger on board the flight passed a bomb change her flight but didn't have enough threat note, written in English, to a crewmember. money and asked him for help. The passenger gave her 300 RMB and told her that there 27 NOVEMBER: YEREVAN, ARMENIA was no need to return the money. When she A 21-year-old made a hoax call about a bomb was challenged by reporters at the airport, having been planted in the central building of she admitted it was a con. The police were Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport. called, but she collapsed when they arrived, claiming to be suffering from hypoglycaemia. 30 NOVEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK It later emerged that all her medical tests An American Airlines flight en route from proved normal. Barcelona to JFK was the subject of a bomb threat.
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OCTOBER 2014 VOLUME 20 ISSUE 5 18 AUGUST: TOKYO, JAPAN 1 SEPTEMBER: TRIPOLI, LIBYA HIJACKS Japan Airlines (JAL) has suffered a cyber The Aviation attack which has compromised the security Safety Network 25 AUGUST: OBERON, AUSTRALIA integrity of data relating to up to 750,000 of published a list of the Leslie Nixon, 82, allegedly tried to wrestle the its frequent-flier programme members. JAL 34 aircraft damaged controls of a Duchess light aircraft from James only found out about the attack when it started during fighting at Chandler, the pilot who was flying him from investigating incidents after its customer Tripoli Airport. The list includes 10 which Bankstown to Cowra. Chandler overpowered information system responded too slowly on belonged to Libyan Airlines and 8 to Afriqiyah. Nixon, who later required hospital treatment, 19th and 22nd September. The airline then and landed the aircraft near Oberon. Nixon was confirmed that its Customer Information 7 SEPTEMBER: LAGOS, NIGERIA himself a pilot, used to flying to communities in Management System, which contains the A US air marshal was attacked by a man with the Australian Outback as part of his work as a personal data of JAL Mileage Bank members, a syringe at the airport in Lagos. Once home, Baptist missionary. had been hacked. The data includes members’ against the backdrop of concerns over Ebola, names, genders, birth dates, addresses, email the marshal was hospitalised. addresses and places of work. Initial estimates indicate that the data of 190,000 customers is 26 SEPTEMBER: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS suspected to have been stolen by an external Brian Howard, 36, allegedly set fire to an air server, believed to be based in Hong Kong. traffic control centre in Chicago before trying to kill himself with a knife. The act of arson affected 21 AUGUST: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL more than 3,000 flights as both Chicago O'Hare Hamas fired an M75 rocket at Ben Gurion International and Midway Airport were shut down. International Airport.
SABOTAGE 23/24 AUGUST: EDMONTON, ALBERTA INCIDENTS & ATTACKS Vandals stole an emergency hatch, amongst other parts, from a Pacific Western 1 AUGUST: SHANNON, EIRE 12 AUGUST: SANTIAGO, CHILE Airlines B-737 owned by the Alberta Aviation In the midst of the conflict in Gaza, Sinn The largest robbery in Chile’s history took place Museum and on display at Villeneuve Airport. Féin organised a pro-Palestinian protest at when eight gunmen stole more than 4bn Pesos Shannon Airport. 50 people took part in a ($10 million) from an armoured Brinks truck at 1-hour peace vigil, after which they marched the airport. Dressed as ground personnel, the 3kms to the terminal building. robbers entered the cargo area of Santiago's international airport and intercepted the armoured vehicle carrying the money. The gunmen held up the guards, who had left their weapons at airport security, and emptied the security truck, before running away without firing any shots. They escaped the airport in 10 AUGUST: HALIFAX, CANADA two white vans. 26 AUGUST: LIEGE, BELGIUM A 37-year-old was arrested after she scaled the Six members of Liliths, a Belgian feminist perimeter fence of Halifax International Airport group, poured 25 gallons of fake blood on the allegedly to try and stop a plane departing on floor of the airport in Liege to protest against which her partner was a passenger. the airport being used to transport arms to Israel. Liege Airport denies weapons pass 11 AUGUST: ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE through it and stated that it intended to file In response to the Ebola outbreak, the Côte charges against the feminist activist group. d'Ivoire Transport Minister Gaoussou Toure said, "We have banned flights to and from countries touched by the virus, notably Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. These places will no longer be serviced by Air Côte d'Ivoire".
14 AUGUST: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA A woman who reported her suitcase as being 14 AUGUST: QUETTA, PAKISTAN damaged was given a replacement one by airline Four militants were killed when they tried to personnel. What neither they nor the woman storm the Samangi airbase in Quetta. knew was that the seemingly empty replacement case was actually an Australian Federal Police 17 AUGUST: TORONTO, CANADA 26 AUGUST: BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN training bag, used to test the canine unit, which Barney Britton, an Air Georgian pilot, was Reports indicate that a surface-to-air missile was lined with 230 grams of plastic explosives. arrested after an incident in which he allegedly brought down a Mi-8 helicopter, chartered by The woman only found the concealed explosives assaulted an airport employee on the tarmac at the United Nations from UTair. Three of the on 9 September! When she took it to her local Toronto’s Pearson Airport. four Russian crewmembers were killed. police station, the building was evacuated.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe October 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 19 AUGUST: SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA 18 SEPTEMBER: ORLANDO, FLORIDA 9 AUGUST: BLACKPOOL, UK An airport security officer allegedly shot out the Demetrice Hall, 32, was found airside at Mark Turner, 32, became unruly on a Jet2.com flight tyre of a taxi after a dispute with its driver. Orlando International Airport. He was from Alicante. Turner swore at the crew and head- discovered by JetBlue workers as he tried to butted his brother-in-law. He was later fined £200. 19 AUGUST: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB hide in a wheel well, hoping to secrete himself EMIRATES on board for the flight to New York. 10 AUGUST: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Heba Qwak, a Eun-Jong Lebanese woman, was 19 SEPTEMBER: IZMIR, TURKEY Lee, denied entry to the The body of a man, believed to have been a 47, was UAE after immigration stowaway, was found near the runway at Izmir’s arrested officers took issue with Adnan Menderes International Airport. for the amount of silicone allegedly in her upper lip, cheekbones and forehead. 20 SEPTEMBER: MELBOURNE, groping She was put on a flight back to Beirut. AUSTRALIA a female Oliver Buckworth, passenger 25 AUGUST: DJIBOUTI 28, was taken off on a A member of the Presidential Guard opened a Tigerair flight United fire at Djibouti International Airport, injuring bound for the Gold Airlines two people, one of whom was the President’s Coast after another flight from personal doctor. Djibouti’s President, Ismail passenger noticed Tokyo to Omar Guelle, had been at the airport himself him scribbling the Newark. ten minutes before the shooting commenced. word 'terrorism' in The his journal. Above his woman had been asleep, but awoke to find Lee 6 SEPTEMBER: TRIPOLI, LIBYA drawing, he had also touching her breast through her clothing. Lee A member of check-in staff was allegedly beaten written, 'In a land of is a Professor at Handong Global University, up after refusing to board a passenger on a flight melting ice creams, sandy feet and fluffy bears, South Korea and a Visiting Scholar at Cornell to Istanbul. Militiamen, controlling the airport, how can anyone be fearful of terrorism?' University, New York. insisted that the passenger be boarded and attacked the check-in staff, prompting an airport- 23 SEPTEMBER: VIETNAM 11 AUGUST: HONG KONG wide strike by other employees, effectively VietJet Air has been accused of A Virgin Atlantic flight, en route to London, had temporarily shutting down civil aviation. perpetuating the image of the flight attendant to return to Hong Kong after a 26-year-old British as a sex object after publicity images featuring man became unruly 90 minutes into the flight. 7 SEPTEMBER: SANAA, YEMEN scantily-clad 'cabin crew', wearing the airline’s Thousands of protesters blocked access colours, appeared on Facebook. The images 20 AUGUST: NEW DELHI, INDIA to Sanaa International Airport by erecting were posted by Ngoc Trinh, a lingerie model, who An intoxicated Indian passenger became concrete barriers along Airport Road. indicated that they were part of VietJet Air's next aggressive on an Air India flight en route from promotional campaign. The airline denied that Melbourne to Delhi. He is reported to have hit 8 SEPTEMBER: LUTON, UK they were part of an official advertising campaign. two flight attendants, and attempted to tear A suspicious package, with wiring, an organic their clothing. mass and a power source, was found in a passenger’s baggage and caused the closure 21 AUGUST: CLEVELAND, OHIO of Luton Airport. Initial reports indicated that it Jay Peck was arrested for refusing to turn off was a pair of hair straighteners, but the airport his mobile phone whilst his Southwest Airlines later denied this. The passenger also was flight was taxiing for take-off to Baltimore. The unable to explain what the item was but did aircraft returned to the gate where Peck was confirm that the bag had been left unattended. UNRULY offloaded and arrested. PASSENGERS 15 SEPTEMBER: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 21 AUGUST: HOUSTON, TEXAS Bullets were found concealed inside a 3 AUGUST: LONDON, UK A Japanese man was arrested for molesting a toy in the hand luggage of an Israeli passenger Brie Ann Johnson, a former flight attendant, female passenger on a United Airlines flight boarding a flight for Uzbekistan. The passenger attacked British Airways crewmembers on a from Narita to Houston. The 21-year-old claimed that he did not know he was carrying flight from New York to London. She is reported woman was seated next to the man when bullets and that he had received a package to have locked herself in a Business Class he allegedly touched her breast and took a from an Uzbek woman he had never met toilet and, once out, to have issued threats photograph up her skirt with his mobile phone. before. Arms and narcotics were later found and assaulted the crew who restrained her. It is hidden within a set of toys and dolls in the believed that her behaviour was a result of her 22 AUGUST: JFK, NEW YORK suitcase of an Uzbek national, whom the man mixing alcohol and Xanax, having had nothing Thami Drissi, 45, was arrested after a woman identified as the woman who asked him to to eat. She was sentenced to six months in accused him of molesting her while she slept carry the package. prison, suspending for 18 months. Johnson was on a Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca. also ordered to pay fines, costs, and restitution She claimed that he had touched her breast to the flight attendants she assaulted. and tried to put his hands under her blouse and inside her trousers. 7 AUGUST: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Bed Prakash was arrested for having allegedly 22 AUGUST: NEW DELHI, INDIA sexually assaulted the 14-year-old girl sitting next Rishabh Sethi, 21, caused the delay of his to him on a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Indigo Airlines flight when he got up from his San Francisco. He is reported to have touched seat and ran towards the cockpit and started her breast and thigh and whispered things to her, banging on the door and demanding to see telling her not to tell her mother. the Captain. He was restrained and off-loaded.
October 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 24 AUGUST: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1 SEPTEMBER: JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 23 SEPTEMBER: KHANH HOA, VIETNAM A United Airlines flight, en route to Denver, A Delta Airlines flight, en route from New York Vu Quang H. was denied boarding a Vietnam diverted to Chicago after two passengers to West Palm Beach, diverted to Jacksonville Airlines flight to Hanoi at Cam Ranh Airport argued over reclining a seat. A woman after an argument started between two after he became disruptive during the security tried to recline her seat but found that she women; one reclined her seat whilst the screening process. couldn’t because the man behind her was woman behind, Amy Fine, was trying to sleep using a Knee Defender (a device which with her head on the tray table. Reports 23 SEPTEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK prevents a seat being reclined). She asked indicate that Fine started screaming about her An El Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv the crew to get the man to remove it, but he dead pets and that she wanted the plane to was disrupted by a group of ultra-religious refused as he said he would not be able to land so that the reclining passenger could be Jews who took to the aisles as they use his laptop. The Captain opted to divert disembarked. It was Fine who was arrested. objected to being seated next to women. after the woman threw a glass of water in the The men sat for take-off as they feared man’s face. Both passengers were removed 2 SEPTEMBER: WINDSOR, CANADA their flight would be delayed, but stood from the flight. A man was arrested due to his behaviour on a up once the flight had taken off initiating WestJet flight from Calgary to Windsor. He is what some passengers described as an “an 26 AUGUST: YEREVAN, ARMENIA alleged to have sworn at the crew and refused 11-hour nightmare”. El Al is under pressure An Aeroflot flight, en route from Dubai to obey their commands. from some quarters to create gender- to Moscow, diverted to Yerevan due to segregated sections. the actions of an intoxicated Azerbaijani 4 SEPTEMBER: ACCRA, GHANA passenger who allegedly became very rude The Ugandan 26 SEPTEMBER: TORONTO, CANADA and started touching children on board. The football team coach, A passenger on board an Air Canada local authorities in Armenia refused to accept Milutin Sredojevic, flight preparing to depart for London was the Azerbaijani passenger and required that was allegedly verbally off-loaded after he was overheard talking Aeroflot transport him to Moscow where he abusive towards the about bombs. was eventually arrested. crew of an Air Ivoire flight transporting the 27 SEPTEMBER: KIEV, UKRAINE 27 AUGUST: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA team from Abidjan, Côte A group of unruly Hassidic Jews, who A sleeping passenger was attacked by a d'Ivoire, to Accra. Airport had gone to Ukraine to pray at the grave of 36-year-old stranger on board a Qantas flight security were called to arrest the coach, but he was Rabbi Nachman of Uman during the period en route from Manila to Sydney. eventually released due to peer pressure. of the Jewish New Year, caused disruption to El Al flights at Kiev airport before their 27 AUGUST: BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETTS 6 SEPTEMBER: NEW DELHI, INDIA return flights. Some of the 20,000 Breslov Edmund Alexandre, 61, became unruly on an An intoxicated British man ran naked onto Hassidim broke through security lines American Airlines flight from Miami to Paris the tarmac at Delhi's international airport and and prevented El Al’s security inspection when the woman in front of him reclined her then started dancing in full view of passengers team from doing its work. Flights left late, seat. The Captain opted to divert to Boston. and staff. He was in transit en route from throwing the airline’s schedule for the next London to Tokyo; he was allowed to continue day into disarray. 27 AUGUST: TORONTO, CANADA his journey. Lilia Ratmanski (left), 25, and Milana Muzikante, 26, became so drunk on board a Sunwing flight 7 SEPTEMBER: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND from Toronto to Cuba that the aircraft had to Luciana Bisignani, 48, was arrested following an return to Toronto where they were arrested. argument with easyJet staff over the size of her The women were reported to have gone to the hand baggage before her flight to Venice. toilets, where they drank the duty free alcohol they had purchased, lit cigarettes and then 9 SEPTEMBER: TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA started fighting with each other. A man became abusive on board a Virgin Australia flight en route from Brisbane to Darwin, resulting in the Captain diverting to Townsville where the man was arrested. 27 SEPTEMBER: GRAN CANARIA, SPAIN Ryanair crew were forced to restrain a man on 21 SEPTEMBER: CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA board a flight from Cork to Gran Canaria. A Qantas flight, en route from Bangkok to Sydney, diverted to Cairns after an intoxicated JUDGEMENTS passenger, who had been restrained, managed & ARRESTS to break through four sets of plastic handcuffs. The man had initially been restrained for 25 JULY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA attempting to steal whiskey whilst intoxicated. Peter Nathan Steinmetz, 54, was arrested after he pointed an AR-15 assault rifle at 27 AUGUST: NAIN, CANADA 22 SEPTEMBER: OMAHA, NEBRASKA a woman and her daughter at Phoenix Two men were arrested due to their intoxicated A Virgin America flight, en route from Sky Harbor Airport. He later claimed that behaviour on board a Provincial Airlines flight. Boston to Los Angeles, diverted to Omaha he was making a political statement and after an unruly passenger was found to be did not intend to harm anyone, saying, “I 28 AUGUST: JFK, NEW YORK masturbating and had then tried to open an decided to make the point that a peaceful Marck Polacky, a 26-year-old Slovenian, was aircraft door and had to be restrained. citizen can openly and responsibly carry arrested on his arrival off an Emirates flight a firearm - including an AR-15 - for from Milan after he had reportedly shouted 23 SEPTEMBER: DA NANG, VIETNAM the protection of themselves and their out “Terrorist! Terrorist!” whilst pointing at Pham Van T. was denied boarding a Vietnam community". In respect of the TSA, he said passengers. He had then locked himself in one of Airlines flight to Hanoi due to his intoxicated that it, "disarms people and subjects them the toilets, before being restrained by the crew. behaviour at the boarding gate. to gross invasions of their privacy".
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe October 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 28 JULY: MIAMI, FLORIDA 13 AUGUST: CRAWLEY, UK 16 AUGUST: NANJING, CHINA Rosalía Matos was arrested, having arrived Ryan Thompson appeared in court accused One of the bodyguards protecting EXO, a at Miami International Airport on board an of being drunk and abusive on board a South Korean-Chinese boy band, was arrested American Airlines flight from the Dominican Monarch aircraft at Gatwick Airport on by authorities at Nanjing Airport when crowds Republic, after she punched the federal officer 21st June. of fans met the group on their arrival and who confiscated her mobile phone after she scuffles broke out. refused to stop talking on it in an area where its 14 AUGUST: WILLISTON, use was prohibited. NORTH DAKOTA Brian Pyron, 53, 4 AUGUST: PARIS, FRANCE was arrested A Malaysia at Sloulin Field Airlines Chief International Steward, Mohd Rosli Airport after he Bin Ab Karim, was ran away from the arrested in Paris for airport security having allegedly checkpoint when sexually molested an federal agents 18 AUGUST: LAGOS, NIGERIA Australian woman, tried to search A 22-year-old from Niger was arrested when Laura Bushney, on board the flight from Kuala his laptop, which was covered in duct tape found to be carrying explosives at the National Lumpur. The woman was, reportedly, a nervous and had tested positive for the presence of Airport Management Authority (NAMA) flyer, increasingly concerned since the loss of explosive residue. annex. He later confessed that he was on a MH370 and MH17; the flight attendant had Boko Haram bombing mission. His abnormal been assigned to sit next to her to reassure 15 AUGUST: LEEDS, UK behaviour had aroused suspicion amongst her, but had become physical. MAS are fully Colin George Courtney and Barry John security personnel. supporting the enquiry. Hogan appeared in court due to their behaviour on board a Jet2.com flight 11 AUGUST: BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND from Budapest. They disregarded the Terrance Morrison, 54, was given a five- crew’s instructions and were abusive; month prison sentence for his behaviour on Courtney had even exposed his buttocks board a Flybe flight from London Gatwick to passengers. The men were sentenced on 2nd March. He was also ordered to pay to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for two £400 compensation to the security guard he years, with 150 hours unpaid work and an assaulted when being escorted off the aircraft £80 victim surcharge after admitting being at George Best City Airport. drunk on an aircraft.
October 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 28 AUGUST: COMOX, CANADA girls who applied for the fake job as a fl ight 5 AUGUST: HAI PHONG, VIETNAM Jason Christian was sentenced to a day in jail attendant underwent online interviews and Nguyen Van Tuan, a 38-year-old from Quang and 12 months’ probation for his behaviour were then told that they would need to travel Ninh Province, was arrested after he told on a WestJet fl ight from Calgary to Comox on to Cairo for their medical examination. Before security screeners at Cat Bi Airport that there 15th July. doing so they were told that they could have was a bomb in his wallet during the check-in the exam via Skype and were asked to undress process for a Vietnam Airlines fl ight to Ho Chi 1 SEPTEMBER: MANILA, PHILIPPINES in front of the camera in order to undergo a Minh City. He was later fi ned VND10 million The security services, acting on intelligence, cancer check. One woman eventually reported (US$491). arrested a group of three men who were the scam to the authorities. allegedly in the process of assembling 7 AUGUST: PERPIGNAN, FRANCE improvised explosive devices in a white truck 18 SEPTEMBER: BROOKLYN, An Aer Lingus fl ight, en route from Dublin to parked outside a terminal at Ninoy Aquino NEW YORK Perpignan, diverted to Toulouse after a bomb International Airport. Isaac Rosa, 34, was arrested for illegally alert at Perpignan. operating a DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter drone 1 SEPTEMBER: LEEDS, UK in New York City air space. Rosa fl ew his 13 AUGUST: KRASNOYARSK, Mark Benson, 51, was jailed for 70 weeks after remote-controlled drone, mounted with a GoPro RUSSIAN FEDERATION pleading guilty to seven offences of sexual camera, about 50 feet from a NYPD helicopter, Krasnoyarsk’s Yemelyanovo Airport was assault perpetrated at Leeds-Bradford Airport. forcing the pilot to veer suddenly. evacuated after it received a message Benson, a security guard, had tried to kiss and indicating that a bomb had been planted in grope female members of staff while carrying the building. out security checks and had made unwanted sexual advances to staff in changing rooms 24 AUGUST: ROSTOV-ON-DON, when they were alone. RUSSIAN FEDERATION A bomb threat resulted in the evacuation of 3 SEPTEMBER: QUEENS, NEW YORK the airport. Daniel Feighery, 34, was arrested for fl ying a drone too close to the U.S. Open tennis event 26 AUGUST: PHUKET, THAILAND in Queens. Phuket International Airport received a threat 27 SEPTEMBER: XIAMEN, CHINA telephone call indicating that there was a 4 SEPTEMBER: LEEDS, UK Reports emerge that a man was sentenced to bomb on board an AirAsia fl ight due to land Ryan Hedges, 33, was jailed for six months two years in prison for reporting that he had from Bangkok. because of his intoxicated behaviour on a hidden a bomb which was about to go off at Jet2.com fl ight from Split, Croatia, on 5th the Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. 26 AUGUST: SUBANG, MALAYSIA July. The crew initially confi scated a started A Malindo Air fl ight, scheduled to depart from bottle of Jagermeister which he boarded 30 SEPTEMBER: NASHVILLE, Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Subang to the plane with. However, during the fl ight to TENNESSEE Penang, was delayed due to a bomb threat. Leeds, he became increasingly disruptive and Daniel Boykin, a 33-year- started drinking Sambuca which also had to old former TSA employee, 28 AUGUST: ST. PETERSBURG, be confi scated. was charged with unlawful RUSSIAN FEDERATION photography, aggravated St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport was evacuated 4 SEPTEMBER: LERWICK, burglary, wiretapping, after it received an anonymous bomb threat by SHETLAND ISLANDS unlawful telephone recording telephone. Kenneth Ritchie, 48, was fi ned £400 for and two computer crimes after he had secretly racially assaulting the taxi driver who drove recorded a video of a female offi cer inside an 29 AUGUST: ENUGU, NIGERIA him home from Sumburgh Airport on 11th employee area at Nashville Airport. Chris Bassey, a Nigerian actor, was arrested July after he had been denied boarding after he allegedly made a hoax call to Arik Air due to his intoxicated state. Once home, indicating that there was a passenger (with following a dispute over the fare (which THREATS whom he was emotionally involved) on board Ritchie needed to get from an ATM), Ritchie its fl ight from Enugu to Lagos infected with called the driver a “Paki bastard” and 4 SEPTEMBER: MOSCOW, the Ebola virus. She was tested negative on punched him in the face. RUSSIAN FEDERATION arrival in Lagos. Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport was being 9 SEPTEMBER: KINGSTON, JAMAICA evacuated following a bomb threat. 9 SEPTEMBER: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Joel Bailey, 21, allegedly broke a policeman's Two Australian passengers were denied fi nger because he did not want him to search 5 AUGUST: MANCHESTER, UK boarding a Vietnam Airlines flight to Ho Chi his luggage during the screening process for A man was arrested after he had handed Minh City after a flight attendant heard one his COPA fl ight to Panama. He was charged a note to the crew of a Qatar Airways fl ight, en of the men say, “Don’t let this guy board, he with assaulting the police, assault occasioning route to Manchester from Doha, indicating that is a terrorist!” grievous bodily harm, resisting arrest, there was a bomb on board. disorderly conduct, and using abusive and slanderous language.
16 SEPTEMBER: CAIRO, EGYPT Reports emerge that a man was arrested for having conned at least 50 girls into stripping online as part of the recruitment process for a job with EgyptAir. They were then blackmailed and many handed over large sums of money to prevent the images being published. The
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August 2014 Volume 20 Issue 4 HIJACK 24 JUNE: PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN 13-20 JULY: TRIPOLI, LIBYA A gunman opened fire at a Pakistan Grad rockets, fired by militants, hit International Airlines flight whilst it was landing Tripoli International Airport and, within a week, 10 JUNE: MINSK, BELARUS from Riyadh. A female passenger on board, 12 people had been killed and 13 planes Gela Sapkelashvili, a seated next to her 9-year-old daughter, was destroyed or damaged. passenger on board killed when a bullet hit her in the head; two a Belavia flight from other passengers were wounded and, of the Kutaisi, Georgia, to ten shots which hit the aircraft, one hit an Minsk, threatened to engine. The attack came as the aircraft was blow up the aircraft if about 90 metres from the ground. it was not diverted to a western European destination. The pilot still landed in Minsk where the passenger eventually surrendered to the KGB. Later, Alyaksandr Bukreyeu, the Captain of the 14 JULY: CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA CRJ-100, and flight attendant Alena Murzak Joseph Jumper, 22, allegedly broke into received bravery medals for their actions Western Carolina Regional Airport, stole a John on board. Deere Tractor, vandalised aircraft and caused damage to hangars. He faces charges including SABOTAGE breaking and entering, burglary, and larceny. & ATTACKS 26 JUNE: SAYOUN, YEMEN 15 JULY: XINING, QINGHAI, CHINA 8 JUNE: KARACHI, PAKISTAN Militants attacked Sayoun Airport, bombing its An explosion occurred in the car park at 36 people were killed, including 10 militants, air traffic control tower, and initiating clashes Xining’s Caojiapu Airport; one airport cleaner during a five-hour battle after Taliban with Yemeni troops which left 11 people dead. was injured by shrapnel. gunmen attacked Pakistan's busiest airport, Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. The 26 JUNE: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA 10 militants, wearing suicide vests and Javier Virgilio Cusi Aduviri, 40, was carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled arrested at El Alto Airport after he attacked grenades, entered the airfield via both a gate and injured eleven people with a knife in usually reserved for VIP access and via the the passenger arrivals hall. A statement cargo terminal. Two PIA and one Air Indus from the Servicios Aeroportuarios de Bolivia aircraft were damaged in the attack, whilst indicated that Aduviri, "was not a passenger two cargo warehouses were completely of any national or international flight when he destroyed. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed assaulted people with a sharp-edged weapon" responsibility for the attack. after he had unsuccessfully tried to buy a flight 15 JULY: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA ticket to Chile on a Bolivian airline. A plot to drive a car, laden with explosives, into Aden Abdulle Airport was foiled by Somali security forces. The car was identified and the driver arrested.
15 JULY: HATO, CURAÇAO Two people were killed and six injured after a car pulled up alongside the arrivals hall of Curaçao International Airport and its occupants started shooting at some of the arriving passengers. It is believed that the incident was related to conflict between rival drug gangs and that the targets may have been travelling on an Air Berlin flight from Germany. 5 JULY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 10 JUNE: KARACHI, PAKISTAN A workplace dispute resulted in the death of Two days after the attack on Karachi airport a Korean Air employee. A fight started when itself, gunmen attacked the nearby Airport a cargo service contract worker got into a Security Forces training centre. dispute over some equipment with the Korean Air staff member while the two were in a cargo 21 JUNE: JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN area. The contract worker is believed to have Up to five militants attacked Jalalabad Airport slapped the other man in the face, causing (which includes a NATO base) in a coordinated him to fall onto concrete and strike the back attack; all militants were killed. of his head.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe August 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 16 JULY: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 5 JUNE: BANGKOK, THAILAND 20 JUNE: HONG KONG Two rockets were fired towards Kabul A Thai Airways 70 passengers staged an 18-hour sit-in on International Airport, one landing outside the International ground board a Hong Kong Airlines plane after airport and the other hitting a warehouse. handling employee, their flight to Shanghai was delayed. They Charlie Kalakicha, 42, demanded an apology and HK$800 each in 16 JULY: LAGOS, NIGERIA committed suicide compensation. Tear gas was fired at the thousands of by jumping from protesters who stormed the cargo terminal the fifth floor of the 22 JUNE: LA GUARDIA, NEW YORK of Murtala Muhammed International Airport airline's Operations Centre building at A fishing boat crashed as part of a strike by airport workers over an Suvarnabhumi Airport. Kalakicha left a into La Guardia’s runway administrative fee charged by foreign airlines suicide message and audio clip on his approach lights and it took for imported goods. Facebook page saying, "It's time now. Police 30 minutes to reach Life is so short. Thank you everyone for the vessel and determine 16 JULY: AURORA, MISSOURI knowing each other. I need to say goodbye whether it was a threat or More than $100,000 of equipment was to everyone. It's my time now." not. As it happened, it was stolen from Aurora Airport when thieves an accident caused when made off with equipment such as GPS 5 JUNE: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS the boat’s owner, Craig systems, radios, and transponders from The dead body of a 17-year-old Norwegian Gallo, 51, left the helm for a three-way sex 13 planes. More than 20 planes had been boy was found in the undercarriage of a romp with two of his guests. broken into. KLM aircraft after it landed from Sandefjord, Norway. The boy, who suffered from autism, 17 JULY: HRABOVE, UKRAINE had been reported missing the day before. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, 9 JUNE: JFK, NEW YORK was shot down killing all souls on board. Jennifer Deveraux was almost removed Initial reports indicate that pro-Russian from a JetBlue flight about to depart for rebels in eastern Ukraine are likely to be Boston after an altercation with the crew in responsible for the attack. the aftermath of her 3-year-old daughter urinating in her seat because the flight crew wouldn’t let her use the toilets during a 30-minute delay in the flight’s departure. The 23 JUNE: LAHORE, PAKISTAN aircraft returned to the gate, but an off duty An Emirates flight from Dubai was forced to pilot on board came to Deveraux’s defence divert to Lahore after the Pakistani authorities and she was allowed to fly. prevented its landing in Islamabad. On board was a Pakistani cleric, Tahir-ul-Qadri, who was 10 JUNE: ST. THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS returning from Canada promising a revolution. Yacoub Hassaneen, 39, was removed Qadri initially refused to disembark, claiming from an American Airlines flight prior the flight had, in effect, been hijacked. to its departure for New York following an incident in which he was seen photographing another passenger being 17 JULY: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN treated for a medical emergency on Four militants armed with rocket-propelled the tarmac. A family member of the ill grenades attacked Kabul Airport. passenger had noticed Hassaneen taking pictures, who was asked to delete the 22 JULY: KINSHASA, photos and videos from his iPhone. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO The international airport was partially 16 JUNE: JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN evacuated following an attack on Camp Automatic gunfire was reported to Tshatshi, a major military base in Kinshasa. have been heard in and around Juba’s 1 JULY: MARSEILLE, FRANCE international airport. The cause of the It was reported that French gendarmes had 24 JULY: HOUSTON, TEXAS gunfire was not confirmed, with airport mislaid a 100g block of genuine C-4 plastic Reports emerge that a trespasser had managed personnel refusing to comment. explosives which they had secreted in a bag to scale a fence and steal a truck laden with jet as part of a training exercise one week earlier. fuel from Hobby Airport on 16th May. 17 JUNE: LONDON CITY, UK None of the officers could recall where the A British Airways passenger, who had arrived block had been hidden and, seemingly, the test 27 JULY: TRIPOLI, LIBYA late at the gate for his flight from London failed in any case as the sniffer dogs failed to A rocket hit an airport fuel storage tank igniting City to Frankfurt, and was therefore denied find the explosives. six million litres of fuel. boarding, smashed the fire alarm in an attempt to open the doors so he could get to 2 JULY: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA the departing aircraft. His action prompted Brisbane Airport was temporarily closed when INCIDENTS a full-scale evacuation of the terminal. He a woman drove a car through a perimeter travelled on a later flight. fence and onto the airfield. 4 JUNE: PHILIPPINES Felix Corteza Gaston, the Captain of a 18 JUNE: NAIROBI, KENYA 15 JULY: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Philippine Airlines flight which was hijacked The body of a boy, aged between 10 and 12, An intoxicated 53-year-old man was arrested in 1952, passed away. The hijacking was was discovered on the runway at Nairobi's for impersonating a TSA officer and, in doing considered to be one of the first extended Jomo Kenyatta airport. It is believed he had so, luring women into a private security booth hijacking incidents. been a stowaway on an aircraft. for pat-down searches.
August 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 17 JULY: BIRMINGHAM, UK 29 JULY: RAMSTEIN, GERMANY 12 JUNE: DUBAI, UAE Lee Jezard, 22, missed The body of teenage stowaway was found in the A passenger was restrained on board an his flight to Ibiza, but wheel well of US Air Force C-130 cargo plane Emirates flight preparing to depart for Karachi. still managed to bypass after it landed at Ramstein Air Base, having Take-off was aborted and he was removed from security whilst in an originally departed from Mali and stopped en the flight. intoxicated state and route in Senegal, Chad, Tunisia and Italy. board an empty Lufthansa 14 JUNE: DETROIT, MICHIGAN Embraer aircraft before A JetBlue flight, en route from New York to being found by a cleaner. UNRULY Las Vegas, diverted to Detroit Metro Airport PASSENGERS after the crew were unable to calm down an 22 JULY: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL agitated passenger. After a Hamas missile hit a property in Yehud, 29 MAY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA near Ben Gurion International Airport, the US United Russia politician and State 15 JUNE: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS FAA issued a temporary ban on US aircraft Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein Brothers Randy F. Lindsey operating to Israel. The European Aviation allegedly became unruly on board an (top), 48, and Ricky J. Lindsey Safety Agency then issued an advisory to Aeroflot flight from Mineralnye Vody to (bottom), 53, were arrested airlines saying it too "strongly recommends" Moscow; he is said to have refused to put after Ricky had allegedly made European airlines avoid the airport. on his seat belt, insulted passengers and lewd and offensive remarks provoked crewmembers. to the crew of a Delta flight 24 JULY: CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND they were about to board. The New Zealand’s men were denied boarding, Transport prompting both men to Minister, Gerry become physical. Brownlee, tendered his resignation after he had, along 16 JUNE: MOSCOW, RUSSIA with two of Authorities were summoned to meet his staff, been United Russia Deputy Vadim Bulavinov, 51, found evading off a Vueling Airlines flight from Alicante security checks after he had been reported as behaving because he was 1 JUNE: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE inappropriately on board. running late for Lashonda Lee his flight. He described the incident as being a Williams, 43, was “complete brain fade”. arrested after her United Airlines flight 27 JULY: GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA from Nashville to British pop star Lily Allen asked an Australian Houston returned to Federal Police officer to ‘arrest’ her for a photo Nashville following opportunity when she arrived at Coolangatta an incident on board Airport to perform at the Splendour in the in which Williams Grass music festival. She posted the image allegedly responded to another woman’s on Instagram. The officers concerned are now request that she turn off her mobile phone by under investigation for breach of protocol. saying “I kill white people like you”. 2 JULY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA An American Airlines flight, en route from San 3 JUNE: HOUSTON, TEXAS Diego to Dallas, diverted to Phoenix due to an John Binho unruly passenger. Lee, 33, was arrested when 2 JULY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON his JetBlue flight An Alaska Airlines flight, en route from Seattle from JFK landed to Kona, Hawaii, returned to Seattle after a in Houston after passenger began chanting incessantly. flight attendants had witnessed 7 JULY: PALM BEACH, FLORIDA him trying to pass An argument prescription pills to concerning the conflict a child seated near between Israel and him. Lee was found to be intoxicated and Hamas resulted in a carrying both Xanax and Ambien. Jewish gynaecologist, Lisa Rosenberg, being removed 7 JUNE: DELHI, INDIA from a JetBlue flight prior to Five passengers, aged between 24 and 26, its departure to JFK. Reports allegedly molested four IndiGo air hostesses indicate that Rosenberg was overheard by another on a flight from Vadodara to Delhi. Jewish passenger having a phone conversation discussing the conflict and that, after the call, a 10 JUNE: PHOENIX, ARIZONA heated exchange took place in the passenger cabin An American Airlines flight, en route from Los during which, allegedly, Rosenberg, believing the Angeles to Miami, diverted to Phoenix due to other passenger to be Palestinian, intimated that the intoxicated behaviour of a passenger. she may pose a threat to the flight.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe August 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 8 JULY: LONDON, UK JUDGEMENTS 17 JUNE: BOURNEMOUTH, UK A passenger bit a flight attendant on board a Jet & ARRESTS Peter Thompson, 48, was given a 12-month Airways flight en route from Mumbai to London. community service order and fined £245 3 JUNE: JFK, NEW YORK after admitting smacking a flight attendant, 9 JULY: PERTH, AUSTRALIA Comedian Kevin Meaney, 58, was arrested for Agnieszla Kowalczyk, on the bottom on a A passenger on board a Virgin Australia flight, allegedly elbowing a woman in the chest. Ryanair flight from Alicante on 4th May; he was en route from Perth to Sydney, caused the returning from his own stag weekend. aircraft to return to Perth after he became 5 JUNE: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND abusive towards fellow passengers and the crew. Relatives of the late Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the 22 JUNE: TAIPEI, TAIWAN Libyan man convicted over the bombing of Pan Am Liu, 51, was arrested 14 JULY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 103, have launched a bid to clear his name according on his arrival in Taipei, Kevin Lee Mosele, 20, had to be restrained to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. off a China Airlines on board a British Airways flight, en route flight from San from London to Los Angeles, due to his unruly 10 JUNE: NUNAVUT, CANADA Francisco, after the behaviour. He is alleged to have spat at, sworn Helen Evaglok, 50, was jailed for three days for crew had identified at and threatened fellow passengers and to have her behaviour on board a Canadian North flight that he had installed threatened flight attendants in an abusive manner. from Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay on 13th March, a pinhole camera which resulted in the aircraft diverting to Kugluktuk. inside the toilets 16 JULY: BANGKOK, THAILAND on board. A flight An Australian passenger was arrested after 13 JUNE: HONOLULU, HAWAII attendant made the he allegedly hit another passenger on board Kenji Okamoto, 30, was sentenced to three discovery whilst cleaning the toilets, so marked a Thai Airways flight from Sydney to Bangkok months in prison for assaulting a flight attendant the cubicle as ‘out of order’, but witnessed Liu with a bottle of Jack Daniels. on board a Delta flight from Osaka, Japan to entering the toilets later in the flight and his Hawaii. Okamoto, who was travelling in First removing the camera. On arrest, he was found 25 JULY: TORONTO, CANADA Class with his wife for their honeymoon, had been to be in possession of six pinhole cameras Ali Shahi, 25, was arrested when his Sunwing intoxicated at the time and had lashed out when including memory cards and hard discs with Airlines flight, en route from Toronto to Panama the flight attendant would not take his meal tray. secretly filmed footage of five passengers and City, returned to Toronto due to his alleged a female flight attendant. threats made on board. 14 JUNE: GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS A 27-year-old on his honeymoon was arrested 30 JULY: LONDON GATWICK, UK after Customs found 50 9mm bullets in his bag. A one-legged, intoxicated woman attacked Thomson cabin crew with her prosthetic leg 16 JUNE: DUBAI, UAE during a flight from Tunisia to Edinburgh, A 40-year-old British passenger, who had prompting a diversion to Gatwick. The woman molested an Emirates Airline flight attendant is also alleged to have slapped a girl and head- on a flight from Bangkok to Dubai on 1st April, butted another crewmember. was jailed for six months and fined Dh2,000.
August 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 23 JUNE: BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS 21 JULY: BARRANCABERMEJA, COLOMBIA 3 JULY: ENTEBBE, UGANDA Scott James Lord, 42, was arrested at South Rafael Rodriguez Moros was arrested after Ugandan Police warned that they Padre Island International Airport on charges a grenade was found in his luggage as he were expecting an attack against Kampala’s of improper photography or visual recording went through security in order to fl y from Entebbe Airport between 2100 and 2300. after he allegedly took pictures of a 32-year-old Barrancabermeja to Bogota. Rodriguez, an Certain states advised their nationals to woman’s legs and feet without her consent. offi cial with the USO union, allegedly offered avoid the airport during those hours. airport security agents almost $11,000 (20 1 JULY: HARARE, ZIMBABWE million pesos) to allow him to fl y. A South African Airways pilot, Captain W. Van Ginkel, was arrested for indecent exposure 25 JULY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA after he stripped down to his underwear at Peter Nathan Steinmetz, a 54-year-old doctor, was a security checkpoint in protest at airport arrested on suspicion of pointing an AR-15 rifl e at security procedures. His fl ight was then a woman and her 17-year-old daughter inside the delayed fi ve hours. terminal at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Not motive has been reported, although Steinmetz was only at 8 JULY: HO CHI MINH CITY, the airport in order to get a cup of coffee and was VIETNAM legally allowed to carry the weapon. Xu Haisheng, 44, was arrested for stealing around 26 JULY: JFK, NEW YORK US $5000 from two Japanese Two kayakers were arrested for trespassing passengers on board a having been found on a navigational pier at Vietnam Airlines fl ight from the end of a JFK runway. The men claimed Jakarta to Ho Chi Minh City. their kayak had overturned, that they had lost 4 JULY: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA their paddles and that they had simply rowed Margaret White was arrested after she 14 JULY: TULSA, OKLAHOMA to the nearest land. claimed that she had a bomb in her Matthew Hutson, bag at Charlotte-Douglas International an employee at 28 JULY: FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA Airport; she allegedly assaulted the Tulsa International Allison Johnson, 35, arresting officer. Airport, was arrested was arrested for criminal after having been trespass at Fargo’s Hector 19 JULY: GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA caught on CCTV International Airport only A man has been arrested after allegedly masturbating near a a week after having been making bomb threats against both United Airlines gate. arrested for causing a Brisbane and Sydney airports from a public disturbance on an Allegiant payphone located at Mermaid Waters on 17 JULY: MIAMI, FLORIDA Airlines fl ight and, having the Gold Coast. William Potts Jr., pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for that 57, the former incident, serving fi ve days in prison. 24 JULY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Black Panther The Tom Bradley International Terminal who hijacked a 30 JULY: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH at LAX was temporarily evacuated after a Piedmont Airlines Michael James Pascal, a telephone bomb threat was received and fl ight to Cuba former Delta pilot, was sentenced a package, later found to be innocuous, in 1984, was to 27 months in prison for two was discovered. sentenced to 20 counts of abusive sexual contact years in prison. of a 14-year-old girl on a Delta 26 JULY: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE fl ight from Detroit to Salt Lake Zachary L. Smith, 25, was arrested for 18 JULY: SOFIA, BULGARIA City in October 2013. threatening to blow up a runway at Nashville Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, 23, was International Airport. named by Bulgaria as being the dual Lebanese-French citizen responsible for the THREATS 27 JULY: TAIPEI, TAIWAN suicide bombing of a bus transporting Israeli A man claimed to have explosives in his tourists from Burgas Airport to their resort 18 JUNE: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON luggage as he checked in at the China Airlines hotel two years ago. Husseini allegedly Zachary Lee Milliren, 26, was arrested for counter for a fl ight to Hanoi, Vietnam. had two accomplices in the attack, also telephoning in a bomb threat citing a Southwest of Lebanese origin; they were named by Airlines fl ight bound for Las Vegas; he allegedly Bulgarian prosecutors as being Meliad Farah wished to disrupt his ex-girlfriend’s travel plans. (left), 32, an Australian citizen, and Hassan El Hajj Hassan (right), 25, a Canadian citizen. 25 JUNE: MIAMI, FLORIDA A plastic container, with a clear liquid inside and with the words ‘Bomb. Tick Tock’ written on it, was found inside a passenger’s luggage at Miami International Airport.
27 JUNE: COCHIN, INDIA Cochin International Airport received four bomb threat calls, during which the caller claimed that a bomb had been placed on the airport premises. Each time he called, he spoke in a different language - Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and English.
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JUNE 2014 VOLUME 20 ISSUE 3 HIJACKS SABOTAGE 19 MAY: BENGHAZI, LIBYA & ATTACKS Grad rockets were fired at Benghazi’s Benina airport. 1 MAY: ANKARA, TURKEY 7 APRIL: GALKAYO, SOMALIA An Anadolu Jet flight, en route from Ercan Two people working for the United Nations 28 MAY: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA in Northern Cyprus to Ankara, was hijacked Office on Drugs and Crime - one British and A domestic argument turned ugly when by a 50-year-old intoxicated man who locked one French - were killed when an airport a man started shooting in a restaurant at himself in the toilet towards the end of the security guard grabbed an AK-47 from a the airport during a row with a woman. The 45-minute flight, claiming that he had a bomb colleague and opened fire inside the airport gunman, reported to be a policeman, died and that he wanted the flight to divert to terminal shortly after the foreign UNODC from a self-inflicted shot to the head; three Istanbul so that he could join the May Day employees arrived on an official visit. other people were injured, including the demonstrations there. The crew allowed him woman who took a shot to the chest, and two to stay in the toilet and landed in Ankara 27 APRIL: PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN airport employees. regardless where he was removed from the Two rockets landed near Bacha Khan aircraft by the Police. Anadolu Jet is a low cost International Airport, one near the runway and subsidiary of Turkish Airlines. one outside the airport.
4 MAY: MASAI MARA, KENYA 29 APRIL: DELHI, INDIA Raj Devani became extremely agitated Kush Mehra, 35, was arrested for assaulting during an aerial safari over the Masai Mara two senior Central Industrial Security Force and claimed he was armed and would shoot officials and trying to forcefully enter Indira the pilot if he did not cooperate. Devani’s Gandhi International Airport. Mehra was violent actions resulted in his damaging the seeing his wife off and, after she had gone windscreen, cargo compartment, and gear through security, he called her back; screeners box cases of the Eurocopter AS350, belonging initially said that was not possible but then to North Wood Agencies, in which he was relented and the couple were allowed to flying. Damage was estimated at 15 million speak again. She then went through security Kenyan Shillings (approx. $170,000). He faces a second time and Mehra again called her INCIDENTS additional charges for having jeopardised the back; this time the security personnel refused safety of the aircraft and forcing it to crash and Mehra became violent. He later claimed land in the Masai Mara. On 3rd May, Devani that he had been very upset that his wife was 5 APRIL: HAT YAI, THAILAND had chartered the helicopter to take him, and travelling to Canada and that the security Sutthidet Mahaphan, 39, managed to two American girls, to Tipilikwani camp. The officers hadn't understood how emotional he board a Nok Air flight bound for Bangkok next morning, 23-minutes into the safari flight, had been. without any identification or a ticket. It Devani told the pilot that his children had been was only when he asked crew to let him kidnapped and were in the back of the aircraft; 29 APRIL: KENNESAW, GEORGIA sit in the front row seats, which were the American girls had apparently gone on Geddy Kramer, a 19-year-old FedEx already occupied, that the absence of any a separate safari by road. He then started employee, shot and injured six people, before documentation was found. pulling the seats apart and the pilot had to ask killing himself, at a FedEx facility near Cobb the Tipilkwani camp manager to restrain him County Airport. 5 APRIL: DELHI, INDIA while he made an emergency landing. On the Three junior Israeli security personnel, ground, things got worse. The Captain opened employed by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, all the doors to show him nobody was hidden were involved in an argument with Indian on board, but Devani then tried to attack the immigration officers at New Delhi’s airport pilot and camp manager with a metal bar. following the slow processing of passengers The camp manager ran to get the Police; by departing from Delhi to Kathmandu. They the time they arrived, Devani had stripped allegedly physically assaulted one official, down to his underwear and had smashed the although the Israelis claim that they were windscreen, canopy, fuselage and doors of the 12 MAY: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN acting in self-defence. The Indian police helicopter with the metal bar. He was arrested. Two rockets landed at Kabul International later opened a criminal case against the To make matters worse, the cheque Devani had Airport; four other rockets hit Bagram Air three Israelis who could not be arrested as issued to hire the helicopter bounced. Base. Taliban militants claimed responsibility they carried diplomatic passports. for the attacks.
14 MAY: El PASO, TEXAS A Heliqwest "Ranger" maintenance helicopter was vandalised in the Franklin Mountains. All the windows and its windshield were smashed and the words ‘Sorry Punk’ were written on the helicopter’s nose. The interior had been sprayed with a fire extinguisher.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe June 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 5 APRIL: ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN 8 APRIL: KEFLAVIK, ICELAND 14 APRIL: USA Eduardo A strike by ISAVIA employees resulted in A passenger complained to US Airways on Zuain, the passengers being unable to go through the Twitter about the airline having ruined her Argentine security checkpoint at Keflavik Airport for spring break….albeit adding the phrase H8 Secretary several hours. YOU. The response, however, was somewhat of Foreign unexpected. US Airways tweeted an apology Relations, 11 APRIL: ROTTERDAM, with a photo of a model airplane sticking out refused to THE NETHERLANDS of a woman’s vagina! US Airways deleted being searched at Benazir Bhutto International the tweet which, they apologised, had been Airport as he was travelling to Argentina, via uploaded in error. Dubai, from Islamabad. He allegedly claimed he was exempt from being searched. 16 APRIL: STEWART, NEW YORK A souvenir grenade found in luggage resulted 5 APRIL: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND in the temporary closure of Stewart Airport Matthew Bartlett, a 19 APRIL: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA member of a 15-year-old Yahya Abdi managed to climb the ska band called perimeter fence and stowaway on a Hawaiian Bombskare, Airlines flight at Mineta San Jose International was ordered Airport. He survived the flight to Maui in the to cover up a wheel well. T-shirt bearing the group’s name before boarding a flight to the Shetland Islands. Reportedly, Bartlett responded by A 14-year old Dutch girl, ‘Sarah’, sent a tweet to asking the screener whether the same rule American Airlines saying, “Hello my name’s Ibrahim would apply to a Guns ’n’ Roses T-shirt! and I’m from Afghanistan. I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I’m gonna do something really big 6 APRIL: BENGHAZI, LIBYA bye.” The airline responded within minutes saying, Activists set tyres on fire on the road to “Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your Benghazi's airport as part of broader protests IP address and details will be forwarded to security against the failure to dissolve the Libyan and the FBI.” ‘Sarah’ tried to retract her comments parliament as planned on 7th February. but there was no further response from the airline. She then handed herself in to the Police in 6 APRIL: BODØ, NORWAY Rotterdam, having then tweeted, “I always wanted Bodø Airport was evacuated after a grenade- to be famous. But I meant like Demi Lovato famous, 20 APRIL: MANCHESTER, UK shaped object was found in luggage at the not Osama bin laden famous.” Ryanair flight attendants, operating a flight security checkpoint. from Tenerife to Manchester, allegedly 12 APRIL: BANJUL, THE GAMBIA decided to initiate their own in-flight 7 APRIL: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Gambia’s President, Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, entertainment by asking passengers to join in Two WWI artillery shells were found banned flights departing from Guinea, Sierra a game of ‘toss the toilet roll’ and promised in baggage of two students when they Leone and Liberia from landing at Banjul the winning team free alcohol. Some of the arrived at O’Hare International Airport from International Airport in order to prevent the passengers were, understandably, less than London Heathrow. O’Hare was evacuated spread of the Ebola virus. happy; one elderly passenger was hit in the following the find. Heathrow later said that, face by a roll. “We have the world’s most advanced airport 13 APRIL: HERVEY BAY, QUEENSLAND, scanning equipment. It is designed to pick AUSTRALIA 25 APRIL: SOUTHEND, ESSEX up actual threats such as explosive material, Pilot Col Veldon noticed that fuel had been Sally Nayler, 47, boarded an easyJet flight whereas these were inert items that posed stolen from his aircraft at Hervey Bay during from Southend to Alicante using her 17-year- no threat.” his pre-flight checks, sparking concern about old daughter Shelby’s passport by accident, access control and the quality of surveillance at even though Sally is white and Shelby is of the airport. mixed race.
14 APRIL: SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA A knife was found concealed in an enchilada, wrapped in aluminium foil, in the carry-on baggage of an Alaska Air passenger at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport.
June 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 26 APRIL: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 16 MAY: SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 31 MARCH: MUMBAI, INDIA Smoke was seen emanating from a piece of Protesters set two vehicles on fi re and Rajesh Singh, 40, was arrested when his baggage while it was being loaded in the launched fi reworks near São Paulo’s airport as Ethiopian Airlines fl ight landed in Mumbai from baggage hold of a Fiji Airways Boeing 737-800. part of nationwide demonstrations in advance of Addis Ababa for having allegedly molested a The fl ight was postponed as the crew went ‘out the World Cup. The Brazilian police responded 34-year-old female passenger, even though of hours’. Fiji Airways later said that luggage by fi ring tear gas and rubber bullets. she was accompanied by her husband and her in question was found to be carrying material son. They were returning to India from Brazil suspected as prohibited Dangerous Goods. via Ethiopia.
29 APRIL: DOUALA, CAMEROON 3 APRIL: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Mohamed Saleem, a man of Sri Lankan James Kottak, the drummer with the origin, had checked in for a Royal Air Maroc German rock band Scorpions, was arrested fl ight from Douala to Casablanca, when for being intoxicated whilst in transit, en route Customs offi cers saw a suspicious item in his from Russia to Bahrain, at Dubai Airport. He baggage whilst it was being X-rayed. Saleem is reported to have made derogatory remarks was asked to open the bag and he pulled out about Muslims, made an indecent gesture to a two torches. As his fl ight was about to depart, 19 MAY: TAMPA, FLORIDA group of passengers and removed his trousers. Saleem was allowed to fl y but the torches were Alexander Ortega, He was fi ned AED2,000 and sent to prison for retained by the Customs offi cers as there was 27, was found wandering one month, after which he was deported. nobody suitably qualifi ed on duty to ‘clear’ the near a runway having items. They later established that the torches scaled the airport’s fence. did indeed contain explosive devices, so called Casablanca Airport to request that Saleem be arrested on arrival. Cameroon is now seeking 26 MAY: CAIRO, EGYPT Saleem’s extradition from Morocco so that he A Chinese man who arrived in Cairo on a can stand trial. Turkish Airlines fl ight from Istanbul ran onto the runway instead of going to the arrival hall. He had to be restrained by the Egyptian Police.
26-27 MAY: DONETSK, UKRAINE 33 people were reported dead after a 3 APRIL: BARCELONA, SPAIN day of confl ict and violence at Donetsk Airport between pro-Moscow separatists and the Ukrainian forces.
A fi ght commenced between members of a hen party, including the bride-to-be, on a Ryanair fl ight to Barcelona. One of the 10 MAY: ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA bridesmaid’s, Katrina Hanafi n, 33, claims that Alice Springs Airport had to be evacuated after she was assaulted by the bride, Kelly Lloyd. a man managed to get over the security fence Hanafi n later made a formal complaint to and onto the tarmac. the police, saying she was cut and bruised 29 MAY: DETROIT, MICHIGAN as a result of the attack. Filmed by another 11 MAY: DIVJAKA, ALBANIA Christian Smith, 22, exited the secure area and passenger on board, Lloyd can be seen A single-engine Piper aircraft crashed then returned though the same exit without throwing punches. Hanafi n spent the night at on a beach at Divjaka, south of Tirana. Its being screened again, prompting a terminal the airport and then returned home with Jet. pilot was an Italian, Girgio Riformato, who operational shut down. com the next day. was arrested, along with an Albanian, Saimir Bajramaj, when the authorities found 460 kilograms of marijuana and €27,000 in a UNRULY vehicle nearby. Bajramaj was the car’s driver PASSENGERS and it is thought that the drugs were to be loaded into the aircraft. 27 MARCH: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Mirko Werner, a 36-year-old German fl ight attendant, became unruly having been refused alcohol on an Asiana fl ight on which he was travelling as a fare- paying passenger. Werner is reported to have spent more than $30,000 on 25 trips to Australia solely to 7 APRIL: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON boost his frequent fl yer status and was on the round An intoxicated passenger was arrested after trip from Seoul to Sydney only to rack up points. On he initially went through security and then board, he allegedly pushed the senior crew member exited the sterile area for a drink before trying in the chest, pinned him against a door, punched him to re-enter the sterile area through the exit in the back and then put him in a headlock, before (without going through security again). When taking him to the fl oor…all because he had been the alarms sounded, he ran off and was chased denied more drink. Werner was later sentenced to through the airport before being found on a a 12-month suspended jail term and put on a three- satellite train which was not moving because of year good behaviour bond. the breach.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe June 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 13 APRIL: OMAHA, NEBRASKA “positioned himself in the gap behind row 37 the woman became extremely aggressive. A Southwest Airlines flight, en route from and in front of the bulkhead,” according to FBI The police met the aircraft but no charges Chicago to Sacramento, diverted to Omaha Agent Bianca Betz. The woman was seated in were brought. To make things worse, she was after a passenger tried to open a door in-flight. row 37 and Pochampally simply leant over and travelling on holiday with her parents who were assaulted her. When she eventually awoke, seated separately from her on the flight! he ran down the aisle, but was intercepted by crew. He did not need to be restrained. 6 MAY: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA A 41-year old woman had to be removed from 23 APRIL: DUBLIN, EIRE an aircraft after she made the threatening Timothy Fasano, a 49-year-old New York remarks to an air hostess who had asked her attorney was arrested for his alleged to stow her bag, which was by her legs, for intoxicated behaviour on a Lufthansa flight, en take-off. route from Munich to New York, which had to divert to Dublin. He was later sentenced to four 6 MAY: ABUJA, NIGERIA 13 APRIL: JFK, NEW YORK months in prison and fined €750. A First Nation Airways flight, en route Shahbaz Khan, 30, spat at passengers from Abuja to Lagos, was delayed when a and attacked three flight attendants on 25 APRIL: BALI, INDONESIA passenger became unruly on realising, whilst a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. On Matt Christopher Lockley 28, had to the aircraft was taxiing for departure, that he landing, he punched one flight attendant be restrained by Virgin Australia crew on had misplaced his mobile phone; the man was in the face, kicked a second in the groin a flight from Brisbane to Bali on which he removed from the flight and arrested. and kicked a third in the stomach. He was allegedly banged on the cockpit door whilst restrained and tied to a seat by the crew intoxicated, causing the pilots to trigger a 7 MAY: FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA with the help of several passengers. Khan hijack alert. Lockley was arrested on arrival in An intoxicated man passed out in the toilets was charged with assault and intimidating Bali but was later released by the Indonesian of an aircraft set to depart Hector International flight attendants, but was later freed on authorities without charge. The Australian Airport. Police were called to remove him from a $25,000 bond signed by his mother; he authorities took a different view and he was the flight. must refrain from drinking alcohol as a issued with a notice to appear in Brisbane condition of his release. Magistrates Court on 6th June. 14 MAY: BALI, INDONESIA A Scoot flight, en 14 APRIL: BANGKOK, THAILAND route from Sydney to A Thai Smile Air flight aborted its departure Singapore, diverted to for Hat Yai after Surin Langso, 22, allegedly Bali after a husband and jumped up from his seat and started shouting wife starting arguing, that he wanted to get off. and fighting, with each other. So serious was the 16 APRIL: DIPOLOG, PHILIPPINES incident that the wife Teck Chon Low, a Malaysian national, was suffered a fractured arm. arrested by the Police for being rude to Once the aircraft had airport security personnel at Dipolog Airport landed at in Bali, another when they found six disposable gas lighters passenger, who was in his bag. He was then denied boarding a intoxicated, started screaming obscenities at Philippine Airlines flight to Manila because of 25 APRIL: DHAKA, BANGLADESH the crew and was also denied onward carriage. his behaviour. ‘Emon’, 38, and Mintu Shikder, 43, were arrested when their Biman Bangladesh Airlines 14 MAY: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 17 APRIL: VARADERO, CUBA flight from Dubai landed in Dhaka. The men Robert An Air Canada flight from Varadero to Halifax, were charged with sexually harassing two Coppack’s actions Canada, was delayed after four unruly, fellow women passengers. They were fined Tk on board a US intoxicated, women became extremely abusive 5,000 (approx. $50) each. Airways flight in the airport, two becoming physical. Of the en route from four, two were denied boarding and the others 26 APRIL: DELHI, INDIA Philadelphia to were allowed to fly but were denied alcohol Pavan Kumar Agarwal, 38, and Mohammed London resulted in-flight. Feroz, 32, were arrested for having groped an in the aircraft IndigoAir air hostess during a flight. having to return 22 APRIL: STANSTED, UK to Philadelphia. Waldemar Wiktor Zglenicki, 56, assaulted the 4 MAY: BOURNEMOUTH, UK Coppack was arrested for having allegedly crew of a Ryanair flight, en route from Poland Peter Thompson, 48, was arrested for his threatened flight attendants, passengers and to Stansted, whilst intoxicated. He was later behaviour on a Ryanair flight, en route even air marshals on board. The incident fined £500 and ordered to pay a £50 victim from Alicante to Bournemouth, in which he started with Coppack allegedly touching two surcharge, £85 costs and £50 compensation. allegedly slapped a stewardess on the bottom. female passengers inappropriately. When flight Thompson had been on a ‘stag’ do in Spain attendants intervened, he became abusive 22 APRIL: SAN FRANCISCO ahead of his wedding in August. towards them. The crew managed to get him Vinay Pochampally allegedly sexually assaulted to the rear of aircraft, but he was seen to touch a woman whilst she was asleep on a British 5 MAY: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA another passenger on her breast on the way Airways flight en route from London to San It was reported that a British woman had, a there. Air marshals intervened and eventually Francisco, placing his hand inside her shirt and week earlier, been restrained on board a Virgin restrained him. He has since been released on groping her for “about five minutes”. It was Atlantic flight for having loud sexual liaisons in bail pending his trial, but has had to surrender reported that the incident was witnessed by the toilets with a man she had met on board his US and UK passports (he is a dual citizen) quite a few of the passengers. Pochampally the flight. So vocal was the activity that the and must attend a treatment programme for is reported to have got up from his seat and crew forced the door open at which point mental health, drug, and alcohol addiction.
8 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe June 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 15 MAY: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 5 APRIL: PATIALA, INDIA 17 APRIL: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Andrew Nankivell, 30, allegedly assaulted a Bhupal Man Damai (alias Yusuf flight attendant on a flight from Gold Coast to Nepali), 54, who was jailed in connection Sydney whilst intoxicated. with the hijacking of Indian airlines flight IC814 to Qandahar in December 1999, was 16 MAY: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA released after a court exonerated him for his A 54-year-old Indian passenger, on a involvement after he had served 14 years of flight bound for Mumbai, was arrested at his life term. Bandaranaike International Airport after he allegedly became unruly upon boarding.
19 MAY: DELHI, INDIA Alexandra Williams, 36, was released on a A passenger was arrested when he arrived A$500 three-month order to be of good in Delhi off an Air India flight from New York behaviour, ordered to pay A$232 costs and and was charged with misbehaving with an air to write letters of apology for her behaviour hostess during the flight. on a Philippine Airlines flight from Manila to Melbourne on 19th July 2013. Williams had, 20 MAY: ATTAWAPISKAT, CANADA as well as being generally unruly, touched the Three passengers on an Air Tindi flight 7 APRIL: ROATAN, HONDURAS buttocks of a crewmember and tried to kiss to Attawapiskat were charged with Luis Felipe Parra and Hector Manuel Guerra, him on the cheek even though her husband endangering the safety of an aircraft - Cindy both US pilots, were arrested for allegedly was on board. Okimaw, 27, and two youths – following a landing and then abandoning a luxury jet at fight on board. Roatan airport on 2nd April. 17 APRIL: HONG KONG Antti Oskari Manselius, 23, appeared in court 22 MAY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA 7 APRIL: JFK, NEW YORK on charges relating to his antics on a Cathay A 21-year-man caused the diversion of an Junior Rowe, 30, and Wayne Walker, 41, were Pacific flight en route from Amsterdam to Hong American Airlines flight, en route from Los arrested after a fight broke out between three Kong on 14th February, during which he had Angeles to Miami, to be diverted to Phoenix taxi drivers outside Terminal 8 at JFK. The allegedly demanded that the crew fly to Sochi due to his erratic behaviour on board. third driver, allegedly the victim, claims that so that he could watch the Winter Olympics. Rowe and Walker tried to stab him. Two flight attendants reported that Manselius 28 MAY: BALI, INDONESIA was found walking towards the cockpit with A male passenger was arrested on arrival 7 APRIL: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA two Economy Class blankets wrapped around when his Jetstar flight from Melbourne Marilyn his head, wearing another like a cape and landed. He had allegedly assaulted three Jean Hartman, holding a Toblerone bar like a sword. A Finnish- of the cabin crew. One of the crew was 62, was arrested speaking security consultant on board helped unable to operate the return flight resulting when found in the crew defuse the situation. in the flight being cancelled, stranding 267 the toilets at San passengers in Bali. Francisco Airport 17 APRIL: LEICESTER, UK despite being on Alex Aaron Parker, 19, Craig Appleby, 20, 31 MAY: MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE a court order to and Luke Walters, 21, were jailed after they A United Airlines flight, en route from stay away from shone a laser pen at two passenger flights Houston to LaGuardia, diverted to Memphis the airport after three previous attempts to and a cargo plane landing at East Midlands after a passenger, who had been involved board flights to Hawaii (on 15th, 18th and Airport on 1st February 2013. They also shone in a confrontation towards the rear of the 20th February) without a ticket. Hartman, the pen into the control tower, causing an air plane, tried to gain access to the cockpit. placed on probation on 27th February was traffic controller to suffer momentary blindness Passengers were later put on another flight, also arrested for probation violation at the and eye pain. Parker received a seven-month but to Newark instead of LaGuardia. airport on both 18th and 26th March. term, whilst the other two were each given five months each – less because they had admitted 10 APRIL: CASABLANCA, MOROCCO guilt earlier. JUDGEMENTS A French citizen was arrested at Casablanca’s & ARRESTS Mohammed V International Airport when he 25 APRIL: BRATISLAVA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC was found to be in possession of tear gas The head of Bratislava Airport’s police 31 MARCH: AUGUSTA, MAINE bombs and electric shock weapons, having security division was arrested to face charges Marlon Cloutier, 48, was sentenced allegedly already bypassed security controls. of human trafficking. to two years in federal prison for The items were found in a random Customs growing 146 marijuana plants inside inspection. 30 APRIL: ESSEX, UK the security fence at Augusta State Alan Patey, 49, Airport. 11 APRIL: BURBANK, CALIFORNIA was jailed for three Stephen Russel, 28, was arrested for allegedly years for endangering 4 APRIL: ISLEWORTH, UK filming another man urinating in a toilet at Bob an aircraft by making Michael Harding, 53, was sentenced to Hope Airport. a bomb hoax which six months imprisonment, suspended for resulted in a Sri Lankan two years, ordered to complete 200 hours’ 14 APRIL: FRESNO, CALIFORNIA Airline flight, en route community service work, fined £1,000 and A man ran through the security checkpoints from Colombo to told to pay £200 legal costs as a result of his at Fresno Yosemite Airport, grabbing another London Heathrow on 20 intoxicated behaviour on a Kenya Airways flight passenger’s boarding pass as he did so. He September 2013, diverting to London on 14th December. was quickly restrained and arrested. to Stansted Airport.
10 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe June 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 2 MAY: ISLEWORTH, UK 23 MAY: BUNDABERG, QUEENSLAND, 1 MAY: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Kieran McKeown, 34, and Paul Embery, 41, AUSTRALIA Christine Hawea, 57, who had missed her were jailed for stealing cargo at Heathrow Kamal Praveena Galetiya, 40, was arrested flight from Auckland to Napier, allegedly then which was bound for overseas locations, at the airport, in advance of his journey to made a verbal threat which prompted the Air including the Middle East and Afghanistan. Canberra via Brisbane, after he refused a Nelson Q300 aircraft to return to Auckland as routine explosive swab, claiming it to be a a precaution. 9 MAY: PRESTON, UK racist technique. He then allegedly assaulted Jane Brennan, 46, was sentenced to ten an airport security guard. 4 MAY: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN months in prison for making a hoax 999 Arlanda’s Terminal 2 was evacuated after a (emergency services) call claiming that a passenger claimed to be carrying a bomb in bomb would go off at Blackpool Airport THREATS his bag. last November. 1 APRIL: GLADSTONE, NEW ZEALAND 11 MAY: YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA 13 MAY: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA Gladstone Airport was evacuated after a Yekaterinburg Airport was evacuated after an Alexis and Isamar 41-year-old man intimated that he had a unidentified person called saying that a bomb Lopez, a brother and bomb in his baggage as he was going through had been planted there. sister, were arrested after screening to board a flight to Brisbane. getting into an argument 17 MAY: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA with a Spirit Airline ticket 3 APRIL: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo International Airport was agent at Fort Lauderdale- Ievgen evacuated following the receipt of a bomb threat. Hollywood International Vladislavovich Chmil, Airport. They were asked to 34, was arrested at 20 MAY: LARNACA, CYPRUS leave the airport but didn’t, Minneapolis-St. Paul Larnaca Airport was evacuated for 90 minutes prompting Spirit Airlines to International Airport following the receipt of a bomb threat. The Police summon law enforcement. after allegedly later issued an arrest warrant for the 56-year- Alexis, 19, managed to making terroristic old owner of a bus and taxi company who they fracture bones in the officer’s hand whilst threats on a flight. believed to be responsible. The threat was made resisting arrest. in advance of US Vice President Biden’s visit, on 13 APRIL: MOSCOW, RUSSIA 21st May, to Cyprus. A suspicious object wrapped 15 MAY: NASHVILLE, TENNESSE A 65-year-old woman, who had just missed her in plastic tape was found in the toilets in the Adam Bartsch, a 29-year-old Federal flight from Moscow Domodedovo to Varna, arrivals area but it turned out to be a door handle. Air Marshal, received an 11-month and 29-day Bulgaria, told security officers she was carrying suspended sentence, and was ordered to pay a bomb. 20 MAY: PAPHOS, CYPRUS $300 in court costs, for having taken pictures Paphos Airport received a call, seemingly from up a woman's skirt whilst on duty aboard a 13 APRIL: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA the same man who made the call to Larnaca Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville to Aldon Smith, a linebacker with the San Airport (above) saying that a bomb was set to Tampa in 2013. A passenger, Ray Collazo, Francisco 49ers, was arrested at Los Angeles detonate in 30 minutes. witnessed the crime, challenged Bartsch and Airport after he allegedly told screeners that he notified the crew. had a bomb in his bag when he was randomly 22 MAY: XINJIANG, CHINA selected for secondary screening. Two Juneyao Airlines flights en route from Shanghai to Urumqi were the subject of bomb threats. A passenger, Miao, on the first flight passed the crew a note saying his travelling companions, Yuan and Gao, had threatened, by phone, to blow up the plane and that they had also not boarded the flight; the flight diverted to Lanzhou. Juneyao Airlines then realised the companion had boarded its second flight to Urumqi, so ordered that flight to divert to 19 MAY: TAMPA, FLORIDA Nanjing. All the three men were arrested for Alexander Ortega, 27, was given a trespass deliberately making false bomb threats. warning and taken to a local hospital for 24 APRIL: TAIPEI, TAIWAN mental evaluation, after he had been caught Lee Chieh- 26 MAY: MAGADAN, RUSSIA wandering close to a runway, having scaled a fu, 27, was arrested A bomb threat citing Magadan Airport was fence at Tampa International Airport. at Taiwan’s Taoyuan received by email, prompting a terminal evacuation. International 21 MAY: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Airport, one 27 MAY: SANTO DOMINGO, Fox News anchor day after he DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Gregg Jarrett, 59, was threatened to A bomb threat, allegedly made by a 10-year-old arrested at Minneapolis-St. plant a bomb at boy using the tag name ‘Pablo Escobar, Lord of Paul International Airport the airport. the Skies’, citing a Jetairfly flight arriving from for allegedly refusing to Brussels resulted in the authorities stopping cooperate with police. 25 APRIL: GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN operations at Las Americas International Airport. They had been summoned A Norwegian Air flight en route from to the Northern Lights Copenhagen to Oslo diverted to Gothenburg 30 MAY: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA Grill in the main terminal where Jarrett was when a passenger claimed he had a bomb in St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport received a allegedly intoxicated. the cargo hold. bomb threat from an unidentified caller.
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APRIL 2014 VOLUME 20 ISSUE 2 HIJACKS UNRULY 10 FEBRUARY: GOLD COAST, PASSENGERS AUSTRALIA Erika Kapek, 20, was arrested for spitting 7 FEBRUARY: ISTANBUL, TURKEY 31 JANUARY: TETERBORO, at a Tiger Airways representative at Gold Coinciding with the opening ceremony of NEW JERSEY Coast Airport having been told that she the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a Ukrainian The pilots of was too intoxicated to fly. She was later man, Artem Kozlov, tried to hijack a Pegasus a private jet jailed for two months, but the sentence was Airlines flight en route from Kharkov, chartered by suspended on condition that she be of good Ukraine, to Istanbul, demanding that it be Justin Bieber behaviour for 12 months. diverted to Sochi and claiming that he had were forced to a bomb on board. Kozlov was allegedly don oxygen severely intoxicated. masks as there was so much marijuana smoke on board. The pilots and flight attendants had asked the immature 19-year-old pop star and his father, Jeremy Bieber, 38, to stop smoking and to calm down, but they refused. The men were also reported to have been abusive to the flight attendants. When the plane landed, it was 10 FEBRUARY: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA met by DEA and Customs and Border Protection Nobuya Michael Ochinero, 38, allegedly agents and police, but no marijuana was found, became intoxicated on an All Nippon Airways albeit the cabin reeked of the smell of weed. flight from Tokyo to New York, and assaulted a crewmember and spat at passengers. The 2 FEBRUARY: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN aircraft diverted to Anchorage. Ochinero 17 FEBRUARY: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND An Emirates flight en route from Dubai to later said he had drunk four shots of straight The First Officer, Hailemedehin Abera Arlanda was the subject of a ‘hijack’ attempt gin and two beers on board. He was also Tagegn, of an Ethiopian Airlines plane when a Sri Lankan man, screaming that he had carrying a wide range of medication for flying from Addis Ababa to Rome hijacked a bomb, tried to break into the cockpit. He was psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder his own aircraft to Geneva. The pilot seized successfully restrained. and gout. the opportunity when the Captain left the flight deck for a comfort break; Tagegn 2 FEBRUARY: VANCOUVER, CANADA 11 FEBRUARY: DAYTON, OHIO bolted the cockpit door from the inside. Abdul Zain Ali, 25, Amy Dobrzykowski, Once on the ground, he cut the engines on became violent whilst 44, allegedly stood up from a taxiway and climbed out of the cockpit intoxicated on board a her seat during an AirTran window using a rope. Passengers were China Southern flight en flight from Baltimore to able to leave the plane about an hour later. route from Guangzhou to Dayton and started yelling The Captain had repeatedly tried to break Vancouver and had to be profanities. She was into the flight deck but was prevented restrained by passengers arrested on arrival and, in from doing so by the effectiveness of the and crew. He was sentenced to time served order to control her even enhanced cockpit door. (three days) and given a two-year probation once under police control, officers were forced banning him from drinking within 24 hours of to use pepper spray. getting on any Canadian plane or on any flight to Canada. He was then deported back to 12 FEBRUARY: GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA Australia where his journey had originated. Three men, brothers Mark and Nicholas Elvish and their friend Marley Galpin, were 7 FEBRUARY: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA arrested on their arrival in the Gold Coast An off an AirAsia X flight from Kuala Lumpur. intoxicated After taking a cocktail of Cambodian woman made sleeping pills and vodka, they started sexual advances to run riot on board and threatened towards another passengers, flight attendants and even the 1 APRIL: MUNICH, GERMANY passenger on Captain. One threatened to open the door A 28-year-old man from Kosovo, being a Delta Airlines and jump out. deported on a Lufthansa flight from Munich to flight from Budapest, held a flight attendant hostage using Baltimore-Washington to Salt Lake City. When 15 FEBRUARY: GANDER, CANADA a broken razor blade. The deportee forced the the passenger turned her advances down, she An American Airlines flight en route from flight attendant into a toilet and held her there started swearing at and threatening him. She was Chicago to London Heathrow diverted to until the aircraft landed back in Munich where eventually restrained and the aircraft diverted to Gander due to an intoxicated passenger he surrendered to the Police. Reports indicate Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport where repeatedly refusing to comply with the that three flight attendants suffered injuries. she was handed over to the police. instructions of the crew.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe April 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 21 FEBRUARY: COCHIN, INDIA 2 MARCH: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 16 MARCH: PIARCO, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Over two dozen members of the Devender Singh, 61, was arrested for Trinidad & Tobago’s Minister of the Kerala Strikers (a celebrity cricket team) allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on a People and Social Development, Dr were forced to disembark a flight preparing United Airlines flight from Houston to Newark. Glenn Ramadharsingh, allegedly assaulted to depart for Hyderabad after the crew The woman was in a window seat and it is a Caribbean Airlines flight attendant, claimed that they were misbehaving. The reported that, when she fell asleep, Singh Ronelle Laidlow, by touching her breast celebrity team members included film stars allegedly put his hand inside her shirt to touch when he reached for her ID badge as he such as Bhavana, Mythili, Manikkuttan, her breasts and that he had exposed and disembarked a flight from Tobago in Trinidad. Riyas Khan, Prachod Kalabhavan and fondled himself with his other hand. When she Ramadharsingh is reported to have been Idavela Babu. awoke she screamed and alerted the cabin uncooperative with the crew from the onset, crew who ensured that the aircraft was met by refusing to stow his bag and appearing law enforcement. intoxicated. As he disembarked, he warned her that, “your days are numbered”. A report 4 MARCH: PORTLAND, OREGON was filed. Ramadharsingh later indicated Lamar Rogers that he wanted to apologise to Laidlow in became unruly on a the presence of police officers but Laidlow Southwest Airlines felt this was not necessary and wanted the flight from Seattle to incident forgotten. Ramadharsingh was, Sacramento. Rogers was however, dismissed from his ministerial reported to be upset position by the Prime Minister. that there was no First Class section on board, even though Southwest 22 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA doesn’t have such a section on any of its Ivan Greening (stage name Ivan Moody), flights. The flight diverted to Portland when he the singer in the band Five Finger Death became increasingly aggressive and started Punch, was arrested after his alleged swearing repeatedly. Rogers later admitted to threatening behaviour towards a female having smoked ‘purple hash’ before boarding. flight attendant on a Qantas flight between Brisbane and Sydney. 6 MARCH: JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA A JetBlue flight, en route from Boston to Ft. 23 FEBRUARY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Lauderdale, diverted to Jacksonville when Edgar Nafarrette Nonga, 53, allegedly a passenger tried to light a cigarette and 17 MARCH: ASTRAKHAN, RUSSIA assaulted a Philippine Airlines crewmember screamed at the cabin crew. A flight en route from Moscow to Goa had and interfered with the flight crew’s ability to to divert to Astrakhan after Sergei Borisov perform their duties on a flight from Manila 9 MARCH: CAYMAN ISLANDS attacked flight attendants, kicking and, to Los Angeles. He allegedly punched a Michael Scott Foret, 33, was arrested after reportedly, ‘biting them until they bled’. flight attendant twice in the face and had to his intoxicated behaviour resulted in his He also attacked his friends, including his be restrained. Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Costa girlfriend. He had originally been found to be Rica having to divert to the Cayman Islands. smoking marijuana on board. 24 FEBRUARY: SHANNON, EIRE He was fined CI$ 500. Foret had been Som Chanh, 55, caused an Air Transat drinking heavily and had got into a domestic 17 MARCH: KUNMING, CHINA flight, en route from Paris to Montreal, to argument with his wife on board; the couple As passengers boarded a Kunming Airlines divert to Shannon due to his violent and were celebrating their anniversary with a flight to Guangzhou, one man told a flight intoxicated behaviour during which, when planned month-long vacation in Costa Rica. attendant, named Zhao, that he needed help denied alcohol by the crew, he threatened to stowing his bag as he had smuggled explosives blow the doors open. Chanh was making the 10 MARCH: PORTLAND, OREGON aboard the plane. trip to see his mother and four siblings, whom Jared McKay, he had not seen in 35 years, since he was 29, was arrested for his 22 MARCH: MANGALORE, INDIA flown to France as a refugee from Cambodia behaviour on a United Abdul Munir Kunhi, 42, was arrested on his in 1977 escaping the Pol Pot regime. He drank Airlines flight from arrival off an Air India flight from Dubai for whiskey before boarding as he was nervous Chicago to Portland. He allegedly ‘misbehaving with co-passengers and about flying and had not flown since 1977. asked a flight attendant air hostesses’ whilst intoxicated. Chanh was only able to buy the €730 ticket to for four Jack Daniels after Montreal after winning €945 in a EuroMillions departure, but settled 23 MARCH: CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND draw; now it looks like a family reunion is not for receiving two sets of two. He became An Australian passenger on a Jetstar flight going to be possible. increasingly intoxicated, physically touched from Melbourne was arrested on arrival in the flight attendant, telling her that he loved Christchurch for his unruly behaviour during her, and was later believed to have started which he claimed that he had an AK-47 and smoking in the toilets. threatened to break a window.
13 MARCH: KUGLUKTUK, CANADA 25 MARCH: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH A passenger on a Canadian North flight Hans Loudermilk, 66, from Yellowknife to Kugluktuk consumed was arrested after he alcohol she had brought on board and allegedly groped and then, in an intoxicated state, injured a propositioned a 15-year- flight attendant. The woman was restrained old girl sitting next to him by the flight’s First Officer until the plane on a Delta flight from Los landed in Kugluktuk. Angeles to Salt Lake City.
April 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 28 MARCH: PHUKET, THAILAND 2 MARCH: BOULDER CITY, COLORADO 14 FEBRUARY: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL Christopher Boubis, 39, was removed in an Paul Michael Weddle, a An Israeli passenger, on board a Ukrainian intoxicated state from an aircraft that had 47-year-old pilot, was arrested for International Airlines flight preparing to depart arrived in Phuket from Australia. When he stealing a Cessna 208 Caravan Ben Gurion International Airport, found a sobered up in Phuket's Thalang Hospital, he belonging to Scenic Airlines grenade safety catch near his seat; the flight's allegedly started trying to grope nursing staff. from Boulder City Airport whilst 143 passengers were evacuated from the intoxicated. Weddle was arrested aircraft and security checks started afresh. 29 MARCH: KALIBO, PHILIPPINES after taking off and landing Two Cebu Pacific pilots were confronted by several times. 17 FEBRUARY: AMSTERDAM, Xue We Lang, an irate Chinese passenger, after THE NETHERLANDS a flight to Shanghai had to return to Kalibo 9 MARCH: NEWCASTLE, UK An easyJet flight was delayed from taking International Airport due to bad weather. Two men carried out a robbery at a cargo off to Newcastle after an Iranian student warehouse at Newcastle Airport during was seen writing Arabic in a notebook! The which they locked two employees in a goods ‘behaviour’ was noted by a group of 15 and SABOTAGE security cage before escaping with a large 16-year old students, one of whom panicked & ATTACKS quantity of cigarettes. when the passenger was not dealt with by cabin crew. Some of the students opted not 6 FEBRUARY: ZHENGZHOU, CHINA 21 MARCH: TRIPOLI, LIBYA to fly. More than 2,000 delayed passengers stormed Two missiles were fired at Tripoli International check-in counters at Zhengzhou Airport in Airport’s main runway, resulting in the airport 18 FEBRUARY: BENGHAZI, LIBYA Henan province, smashing computers and closing for three hours and flights diverting Members of the armed unit in charge of equipment, in response to the airport’s five- to Mitiga Airport. Also a bomb detonated on protecting Benina airport blocked the hour long shutdown because of snow. the runway. runway and prevented staff from entering the passenger terminals. They were demanding 23 MARCH: TRIPOLI, LIBYA unpaid wages and an investigation into the Another missile was fired at Tripoli crash of an Air Force helicopter which took off International Airport. from the airport on 12th February.
29 MARCH: PASNI, PAKISTAN 23 FEBRUARY: NANTES, FRANCE 20 militants stormed Pasni Airport and seized Riot police had to use tear gas to quell control of an air-traffic control radar post where they approximately 20,000 demonstrators who were killed a security guard. The gunmen escaped but angry that plans to build a new airport had only after destroying some technical equipment. been approved. Ten police were injured and 20 protesters were taken to hospital. 30 MARCH: NDOLA, ZAMBIA Five people were arrested for allegedly stealing 25 FEBRUARY: FRANKFURT, GERMANY an underground electricity cable that supplies Polish MEP Jacek Protasiewicz, who is power to the runway at Simon Mwansa also Vice President of the European parliament, Kapwepwe International Airport. is reported to have shouted “Heil Hitler” 13 FEBRUARY: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA at a German Customs officer whilst in an Six people were killed after a car bomb intoxicated state at Frankfurt airport. He is exploded close to the gates of the INCIDENTS also reported to have asked him, “Have you international airport. The al-Shabab Islamist ever been to Auschwitz?” Protasiewicz later group claimed responsibility. 30 JANUARY: AMSTERDAM, admitted to having consumed two bottles of THE NETHERLANDS wine on his flight from Warsaw and said that James O'Kane, 22, got so drunk he made the comments as he felt that the at the wake after a friend’s Customs officer was rude to him. funeral that he bought a ticket to Amsterdam online and boarded a flight from London Gatwick without even knowing it! He 24 FEBRUARY: JUFAL, NEPAL only realised what he had done when a British A 12-inch pipe bomb was found and safely Airways flight attendant woke him up as the disposed of at Jufal Airport in Dolpa. It was flight landed at Schiphol. He had never been reported that the device may have been abroad before, had no money, no glasses and planted by the Nepal Army as part of ongoing no change of clothes. How he boarded the flight Maoist insurgency. in such an intoxicated state, nobody knows!
25 FEBRUARY: LONDON HEATHROW, UK A Polish airport employee was the subject of a 26 FEBRUARY: EILAT, ISRAEL racially motivated attack at Heathrow Airport. As It was reported she was waiting for a bus, having completed her that Ezies Elias nightshift, a man appeared and began verbally Shehadeh, an Arab abusing another woman at the bus stop. When the teacher at an Israeli victim intervened and asked him to stop he started 13 FEBRUARY: WASHINGTON, DC school, had allegedly shouting racist abuse at her. They both boarded A man's body was discovered in the wheel well been strip-searched at the same bus, on which the abuse continued of a South African Airways jet at Washington's Eilat Airport. She was before he eventually punched her in the face. He Dulles Airport after it had flown in from escorting a group of then got off the bus and escaped on foot. Johannesburg, via Dakar, Senegal. schoolchildren on a trip.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe April 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 28 FEBRUARY: SIMFERPOOL, CRIMEA 6 MARCH: PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA JUDGEMENTS In one of the first ‘incidents’ associated A China Southern flight en route from Tokyo & ARRESTS with the current crisis in Crimea and Russia’s to Shenyang is reported to have crossed the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, armed men path of a ballistic missile launched as part of 4 FEBRUARY: NAIROBI, KENYA took control of two airports in the Crimea region. ‘tests’ by North Korea. Four men, including a man identified as a Somali diplomat, were charged with terrorism- 6 MARCH: BEIRUT, LEBANON related offenses for the detonation of an A Middle East Airlines flight, en route from improvised explosive device at the Java House Beirut to Baghdad, returned to Beirut after restaurant at Jomo Kenyatta International the Iraqi transport minister's son missed Airport on 16th January 2014. the flight. The flight had even departed late as the airline had looked for Mahdi 7 FEBRUARY: CENTRAL ISLIP, NEW YORK al-Amiri, son of Hadi al-Amiri, and his friend Mary Purcell, 39, was in the business lounge. When al-Amiri did sentenced to a year show up at the gate and realised he had in prison for phoning 1 MARCH: BENGHAZI, LIBYA missed his flight, he called his father who in a bomb threat to A group of protestors blocked the entrance to allegedly ensured that the flight had to Tuscon Airport against Benghazi’s Benina Airport. They were family return by preventing the flight from landing a Southwest Airlines members of the pilots lost when an Air Force in Baghdad. flight the day before helicopter went missing on 12th February and the 10th anniversary were demanding that the government steps 8 MARCH: KUALA LUMPUR, of the 9/11 attacks. Purcell said her mother and up efforts to find out what happened to the MALAYSIA brother were due to fly and that she didn’t want helicopter, which lost communication with Benina Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 them to travel. Airbase some 30 minutes after taking off. disappears whilst en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. 10 FEBRUARY: DUBAI, 4 MARCH: BLAGOVESHCHENSK, RUSSIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES An Aeroflot pilot was prevented from operating 15 MARCH: JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA An Indian man, who had been in transit a flight from Blagoveshchensk to Moscow due to It was reported that an Indian man, who overnight in Dubai, was sentenced to being intoxicated. He was later dismissed from had been arrested for assaulting a female one month in jail and fined AED 2000 for the airline which is also suing him for damages passenger, had committed suicide by telephoning the police from his Dubai hotel seeing that all 180 passengers were delayed for 10 hanging himself in the toilets at King room on New Year’s Eve whilst intoxicated and hours until another pilot could be flown out from Abdulaziz International Airport. claiming that a bomb was about to explode at Moscow to Blagoveshchensk to operate the flight. Dubai International Airport.
April 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 7 16 FEBRUARY: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 11 MARCH: UK/USA 18 MARCH: ZAMBOANGA, PHILIPPINES A small, handmade explosive device, later Saajid Badat, 34, appearing as a A dismantled described as being a pipe bomb, was found witness in the New York trial of Osama M16 Armalite Rifl e was during screening in the carry-on bag of an oil Bin Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu detected concealed rig worker preparing to depart on a Shared Ghaith, claimed to have been talked out of inside a computer’s Services Aviation fl ight to North Slope. He being a ‘shoe bomber’ by his mother. He central processing unit was arrested. claimed, however, that he did actually wear housing at Zamboanga International Airport. a shoe bomb in December 2001 on flights 18 FEBRUARY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA between Pakistan and the Netherlands, and 20 MARCH: LONDON, UK Andrei Krivoruchko was fi ned 704,199.70 from the Netherlands to the UK, but that The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service Rubles (over US$ 19,500) for his intoxicated he had not detonated the devices because announced that Colin Kaler, Terrence Hughes behaviour on an Aerofl ot fl ight from Moscow to he wished to attack an American airliner. and Stuart Tribelnig would all be charged Shanghai on 22nd April 2013. The fl ight had to Badat was jailed in 2005 but he only served with manslaughter as a result of the death of divert to Novosibirsk. six years after agreeing to co-operate Jimmy Mubenga, 46. The three men were G4S with authorities. He gave evidence at the security escorts who were deporting Mubenga 21 FEBRUARY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA trial from the UK as he feared arrest if he on a fl ight from Heathrow to Angola in October Dicarlo Bennett, 29, and Miguel Angel travelled to New York. 2010. Mubenga suffered a cardiac arrest whilst Iñiguez, 41, were sentenced to three years’ being restrained by the guards. probation and 480 hours of community service for having set off dry ice bombs at LAX on 21 MARCH: ZAMBOANGA, PHILIPPINES 13th October 2013. A Sharia Judge was arrested at Zamboanga 26 FEBRUARY: XI’AN, CHINA International Airport after A 21-year-old, who had been wanted on a .380 calibre pistol and a charges of blackmail since 2012, was arrested magazine loaded with seven at Xi’an Xianyang International Airport. rounds of ammunition were discovered in her Airport offi cials said they became suspicious luggage while passing through the screening. because the woman did not look like the photo ID she was using. The woman had 14 MARCH: MALAGA, SPAIN 24 MARCH: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES actually undergone cosmetic surgery to 14 Guardia Civil offi cers were found guilty It was reported that an intoxicated Saudi her eyes and nose to avoid detection and of requesting and accepting bribes from Arabian passenger was fi ned Dh 4,000 by a thought that she looked like her cousin, so passengers carrying banned or restricted Dubai Court for attacking passengers on board tried using her papers. items through security at Malaga airport. a fl ydubai aircraft prior to its departure from CCTV evidence shows them taking Dubai on 8th July 2013. The man also resisted passengers into private rooms where they arrest. received cash in return for not confi scating the prohibited item. 26 MARCH: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA Mahiri Hanif, 20, was 16 MARCH: NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA arrested after he scaled A 26-year-old man was arrested for attempting a fence at Pensacola to board a fl ight without a ticket having International Airport and bypassed all security controls. boarded an unoccupied cargo plane. When police EARLY MARCH: CHONGQING, CHINA 17 MARCH: BEIJING, CHINA found him sitting in the A 25-year-old man was jailed for three years for A man was arrested for claiming, at an airport cockpit, Hanif claimed he a bomb threat made at Chongqing airport. He security checkpoint, that he had a bomb wanted to fl y to Atlanta to see his mother and was angry that his girlfriend was fl ying to meet concealed internally. He was frustrated by the that he didn’t have any money. another man in Inner Mongolia. slow pace of screening and is reported to have said, “Do I need to drop my pants as well? 26 MARCH: BIRMINGHAM, UK 1 MARCH: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM I have a bomb in my a***”, when asked to Marsha Woodwart, 41, was sentenced to ten Gui Gouliang, 41, was caught trying to steal a remove his shoes. months in prison for her intoxicated behaviour wallet from the bag of another passenger on on a Thomson Airways fl ight from Crete to a fl ight from Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City. 17 MARCH: SAN FRANCISCO, Birmingham on 19 July 2013. He was arrested on arrival and later deported CALIFORNIA from Vietnam. A Los Angeles County 27 MARCH: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH public defender, Monica Michael Pascal, a 5 MARCH: MANILA, PHILIPPINES Marie Jenkins, was 45-year-old Delta Airlines Philippine immigration officials said arrested for allegedly pilot, was found guilty of the they had deported Agus Dwikarna, an kicking a group of police sexual abuse of a 14-year-old Indonesian who had served more than a offi cers at San Francisco girl on a fl ight from Detroit decade in prison after being convicted International Airport and to Salt Lake City in October. of possessing explosives at Manila's trying to bite a nurse. Jenkins, 36, had been The off-duty pilot was international airport. denied boarding due to being intoxicated. accused of touching the girl’s buttocks whilst she was asleep. 10 MARCH: DELHI, INDIA 18 MARCH: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM A 43-year-old intoxicated man was Dong Jiayi, 35, was arrested for allegedly 27 MARCH: QUAD CITY, MOLINE, ILLINOIS arrested on charges of misbehaving with trying to steal from another passenger on a John VanEpps, 58, was arrested after a loaded a female passenger at Indira Gandhi Vietnam Airlines bound for Hong Kong prior to .380 calibre Walther PK was found in his carry- International Airport its departure from Ho Chi Minh City. on bag at Quad City International Airport.
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FEBRUARY 2014 VOLUME 20 ISSUE 1 HIJACK 26 DECEMBER: BAGHDAD, IRAQ INCIDENTS Three rockets landed near a military site within Baghdad Airport. 4 JANUARY: YINCHUAN, NINGXIA HUI, CHINA 5 DECEMBER: OTTAWA, CANADA A man suspected of being mentally disabled 30 DECEMBER: KINSHASA, Flight attendant Nicole Louise Foran was attempted to rush into the cockpit of a Grand DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO presented with Canada’s ‘Star of Courage’ for China Air fl ight en route from Beijing to Shooting erupted at Ndjili International Airport her bravery during a CanJet hijacking in Jamaica Yinchuan. Five crewmembers were injured, but resulting in 16 people being killed. The anti- in 2009. Her actions, together with those of the man was eventually restrained by security government assailants claimed to be affi liated fellow fl ight attendant Carolina Aida Santizo staff on board. to an opposition leader. Arriola (who received the ‘Medal of Bravery’), are believed to have helped save passengers' 1 JANUARY: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA lives. The two women spent hours trying to SABOTAGE A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device calm the hijacker, Stephen Fray, down as he & ATTACKS (VBIED) exploded 500m from Aden Adde threatened the crew and demanded they take International Airport killing six people. off. Eventually, Foran was blindfolded and she 2 DECEMBER: MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA thought she was about to be executed when Boko Haram militants attacked Maiduguri 13 JANUARY: PARIS, FRANCE she felt Fray place his gun on her shoulder. International Airport, as well as a nearby air French taxi drivers, who were demonstrating When the blindfold slipped, she grabbed his force base. against unfair competition from private taxi hand and forced him to drop his gun, thereby operators, assembled at Charles de Gaulle and bringing the incident to a conclusion. 11 DECEMBER: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Orly airports. Some of the protesters reportedly A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near smashed windows and fl attened the tyres of the airport; there were no casualties. private cars in the area.
20 DECEMBER: MANILA, PHILIPPINES 16 JANUARY: NAIROBI, KENYA Gunmen shot and killed Ukol Talumpa - the An improvised explosive device detonated at mayor of Labangan, Zamboanga – together with Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, blowing his wife and two others (including an 18-month up a rubbish bin and damaging part of the old baby) as they emerged from Terminal 3 at ceiling of the Java House restaurant, near Ninoy Aquino International Airport. the entrance to the terminal building. Four men, including a man identifi ed as a Somali diplomat, were later charged. Whilst no group claimed responsibility for the attack, one of 6 DECEMBER: HOUSTON, TEXAS the suspects is believed to be a member of Tom Wagner fell asleep on board an al-Shabab. ExpressJet aircraft before it landed in Houston. When he awoke, he found that he 20 JANUARY: LANZHOU, CHINA had been locked on board. Three security staff were seriously injured when a man, armed with a knife, ran at the 17 DECEMBER: NEW YORK, USA checkpoint and attacked the screeners there. Cantor Fitzgerald LP disclosed that it will receive $135 million from American Airlines 31 JANUARY: BAGHDAD, IRAQ to drop its lawsuit in which the company Baghdad Airport was targeted and struck by alleged that the airline should have stopped three missiles. The runway was hit by one the hijackers gaining control over AA11 and 23 DECEMBER: BRICEÑO, COLOMBIA rocket; another exploded upon striking the crashing it into the North Tower of the World A Bell Ranger 206 police helicopter was blown outer area of the airport’s border; and the third Trade Centre on 11th September 2001. 658 up by a rebel group in Briceño, injuring two rocket hit an aircraft on the runway. Nobody Cantor employees were killed in the attack. police offi cers, patrolman Diego Garzón and was hurt. the pilot Captain Juan Gabriel Ramirez. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) may have been behind the attack.
Wallet belonging to victim Gennie Gambale, a 27-year-old Vice President with Cantor Fitzgerald who was killed in the attacks whilst working on the 103rd fl oor of the North Tower of the World Trade Centre when AA11 was fl own into it.
4 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe February 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 20 DECEMBER: VANCOUVER, CANADA 12 JANUARY: CASABLANCA, MOROCCO JUDGEMENTS Lucia Vega Jimenez, a 42-year-old Mexican A Turkish Airlines plane, en route from & ARRESTS woman, hanged herself in the Canada Border Istanbul to Sao Paolo, diverted to Casablanca Services Agency holding cells at Vancouver after an unclaimed laptop was found in the 3 DECEMBER: YEREVAN, ARMENIA International Airport using a shower curtain. passenger cabin. Vazgen G., 44, was arrested for stealing Jimenez was facing deportation. 28,000 Armenian Drams (approx. US $70) 14 JANUARY: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA from a pharmacy in the Departure Hall of 21 DECEMBER: KUPANG, Parts of Sydney Airport were evacuated after Zvartnots Airport. TIMOR ISLAND, INDONESIA a QantasLink flight arrived from Armidale, Marianus Sae, an where there is no security screening, and the 5 DECEMBER: EDMONTON, CANADA Indonesian district passengers were mistakenly allowed to enter Skylar Vincent Murphy, 18, was sentenced to chief, ordered his the main terminal directly. Passengers and all one year’s probation, fined $100 and must, staff to block the airport-based employees were asked to exit before the end of February, make a $500 runway in order to the sterile zone before being re-screened. donation to the University of Alberta burns prevent a Merpati unit, for being caught with a pipe bomb at Nusantara Airlines 22 JANUARY: HONG KONG Edmonton Airport on 20th September 2013. flight from landing after the airline had refused A 28-year-old officer from the Airport Security to sell him a ticket to Turelelo Soa because the Unit accidentally discharged his 9mm Glock 17 9 DECEMBER: MOSCOW, RUSSIA flight was full. The incoming aircraft was forced at the airport police station. Sergei Kabalov, 54, was found guilty of to turn back. attempting to hijack a flight en route to 28 JANUARY: BANGKOK, THAILAND Sharm-el-Sheikh on 11th January 2013 whilst 25 DECEMBER: CALGARY, CANADA intoxicated. A Sunwing Airlines flight due to depart for Cancun was repeatedly delayed for 11 hours. Police had to intervene to calm passengers down as their tempers frayed.
30 DECEMBER: SUMBURGH, SHETLAND ISLANDS Sumburgh Airport was closed after an unattended bag was found in the terminal building.
31 DECEMBER: BANGUI, 13 DECEMBER: WICHITA, KANSAS CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Terry Lee International flights were stopped at Bangui’s Loewen, M’Poko International Airport when a large a 58-year- group of disgruntled protesters staged a old alleged demonstration on the runway. al-Qaeda sympathiser, was 5 JANUARY: KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI arrested as he An American Airlines flight, en route from San Pongkan Kositthammanat, a Thai passenger, drove a vehicle Francisco to New York, diverted to Kansas City checked-in for his Bangkok Airways flight loaded with after a suspicious item was found in one of the to Phnom Penh, only to see his suitcase what he allegedly thought were explosives, plane’s toilets. explode on the baggage conveyor belt. to Mid-Continent regional airport in Wichita. Kositthammanat claimed that a friend, Loewen was employed as a technician 9 JANUARY: MIAMI, FLORIDA fertiliser producer Sermyos Nitisathian, had for Hawker Beechcraft at the airport and Jojoba massage oil was seemingly the asked him to take the bag to Cambodia had, allegedly, been studying the airport’s cause of Ksenia Sobchak, 32, being allegedly and had told him he was carrying organic layout and had developed a plan with other strip searched at Miami International Airport. fertiliser. In fact, the bag contained samples conspirators, who were undercover FBI agents, Sobchak is a glamorous Russian TV presenter of chemical concentrate to be used in to use his employee access card to facilitate whose family has close ties with Vladimir synthetic fertiliser production, but they the attack. Loewen was preparing himself to Putin. She had a jojoba oil massage prior to included explosive materials. drive the vehicle into a terminal building when boarding her flight and, seemingly, the oil’s he was intercepted; the materials in the vehicle ingredients resulted in her testing positive for were actually harmless. explosives. The depth of search resulted in Sobchak turning the issue into a huge story in 16 DECEMBER: XIAMEN, CHINA the media. Han was sentenced to five months in jail by Xiamen’s Huli District Court for making a bomb threat against a flight on 19th August 2013.
22 DECEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK Makhonjwa Mashoba, 31, allegedly scaled the perimeter fence and was found walking between two runways. Reports indicate that he had been reported missing on 1st December. When arrested, he allegedly said, “Take me to your leader”. When he was questioned later, he responded, “Access denied”.
February 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational www.asi-mag.com 5 25 DECEMBER: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 12 JANUARY: IRKUTSK, RUSSIA UNRULY Siyah Bryant, 24, was arrested after he was A 28-year-old woman from Irkutsk was arrested PASSENGERS caught trespassing on the tarmac at Newark for claiming that an explosive device had been Liberty International Airport whilst dressed in planted at the airport. 10 DECEMBER: LONDON, UK women’s clothing. A man had to be restrained by Qantas crew 14 JANUARY: ATLANTA, GEORGIA one hour into a flight from London to Australia. 26 DECEMBER: PHOENIX, ARIZONA An AirTran Airlines baggage handler, The aircraft turned back to Heathrow where the Robert Bump, 49, Rasondo Maurice Norris, was sentenced man was arrested. scaled the perimeter to ten years in prison for attempting to fence at Phoenix Sky smuggle cocaine and a Mac-11 machine gun 12 DECEMBER: ESPERANCE, AUSTRALIA Harbor International onto a flight at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson A 52-year-old woman was arrested due to Airport and ran International Airport. her abusive behaviour on a flight from Perth onto the tarmac to Esperance. and taxiway. He 14 JANUARY: FORT LAUDERDALE, was arrested on FLORIDA 15 DECEMBER: NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA suspicion of entering Former Miami Andrei Tretyakov, the a restricted area. Dolphins' 45-year-old former Deputy receiver Governor of the Chelyabinsk 27 DECEMBER: PHUKET, THAILAND Davone Bess Region in Russia’s Urals, was Somsak Pohnisai, 31, was arrested for stealing was arrested at arrested for allegedly beating an iPad belonging to Yang Liqiang, a Chinese Ft. Lauderdale up a flight attendant whilst tourist, at Phuket International Airport on 14th Hollywood intoxicated on a flight from December. The employee was caught after International Krasnoyarsk to Moscow. Alexander Zuichenko having posted photos to an iCloud account Airport due was also arrested - for allegedly threatening which Yang Liqiang later saw and reported to to his bizarre to kill another passenger who had tried to the authorities. behaviour in intervene to protect the flight attendant. The the terminal. flight diverted to Novosibirsk. He was allegedly dancing and singing, whilst his trousers kept falling down. He was charged 24 DECEMBER: FORT LAUDERDALE, with assault of an officer, disorderly conduct and FLORIDA resisting an officer without violence. Trisha Sen, 39, was arrested for her allegedly unruly behaviour on board a JetBlue flight en 23 JANUARY: HONOLULU, HAWAII route from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale. She Timothy David Hershman, 60, was is reported to have scratched a pilot who tried sentenced to 18-months in prison for falsely to calm her down, although Sen claimed that reporting a possible aircraft hijacking whilst it was the crew who attacked her and showed intoxicated. Hershman had called the FBI pictures of her heavily bruised arm. and reported that his roommate was about 30 DECEMBER: MANILA, PHILIPPINES to hijack an Alaska Airlines flight en route 29 DECEMBER: BANGOR, MAINE Marcelo Maligalig, 41, scaled the perimeter from Kona to Seattle. Janet Dinardi, 54, was arrested at Bangor fence of Ninoy Aquino International Airport International Airport after she allegedly and tried to climb into a Kuwait Airlines plane 25 JANUARY: PALERMO, ITALY became unruly when her Allegiant Air flight to through the front landing gear. Opposing football fans from Modena and Florida was delayed. Seemingly intoxicated, Padua, who ran into each other at Falcone she started swearing and refused to calm down 5 JANUARY: LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Borsellino Airport in Palermo, started a brawl in despite warnings that she faced arrest. Zenaida Omengkar, which people were hit with chains and damage a 29-year-old Delta was caused to the airport property. 22 of the 2 JANUARY: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA employee, became fans were arrested. Mathias Jorg, 54, was arrested for smoking verbally and physically in the toilet, and being aggressive towards aggressive towards 28 JANUARY: DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND the crew, of an Emirates flight en route from other Delta employees Tara Anne MacKay, 28, appeared in the Dubai to Brisbane. and was arrested at Dunedin District Court and admitted Louisville airport. assaulting Susan Lawson-Hurst, with intent 6 JANUARY: SHANNON, EIRE She was charged with theft by unlawful to injure her, on an Air New Zealand Jenny Lauren, the 41-year-old niece of taking, disorderly conduct, menacing, public flight on 17th August 2013. She had fashion industry superstar Ralph Lauren, caused intoxication and assault. bitten the flight attendant and had also the diversion of a Delta Airlines flight, en kicked another in the testicles whilst route from Barcelona to New York, due to her 6 JANUARY: HOUSTON, TEXAS intoxicated. She was sentenced to 300 abusive comments towards crewmembers. The Carmen Lechin, the former 1984 Miss Venezuela, hours' community work and 12 months' flight diverted to Shannon and Lauren was later was indicted for her alleged intoxicated supervision, and directed to undergo drug fined €2,000. behaviour on board a flight from Houston to and alcohol counselling. Bogota, Colombia, on 6th June 2013. 28 JANUARY: HEATHROW, UK A 57-year-old man from Swansea, Wales, was arrested on arrival at Heathrow, off a flight from Bangkok, when stun guns, knuckledusters, a throwing star, an extendable baton, a pair of nunchucks and two flick knives were found in his luggage.
6 To subscribe www.asi-mag.com/subscribe February 2014 Aviationsecurityinternational 17 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES, 28 JANUARY: MANGALORE, INDIA 21 DECEMBER: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS CALIFORNIA Ankur Agarwal, 36, allegedly sexually assaulted A telephone bomb threat was received citing New York Jets a Malaysian student on a JetKonnect fl ight from a Southwest Airlines fl ight due to land at San quarterback Geno Bangalore to Mangalore. He was charged with Antonio International Airport. Smith was reported using ‘criminal force to woman with intent to to have been outrage her modesty’. His defence was that he 26 DECEMBER: TAIPEI, TAIWAN removed from a was sleeping and that an accidental slip of the A Peach Aviation fl ight to Okinawa, Japan, was Virgin America hand was misconstrued as sexual harassment. delayed after the airline’s ground staff received fl ight bound for Fort a telephone bomb threat. Lauderdale after 31 JANUARY: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA allegedly refusing to Simon Bealey, 26, was arrested following 12 JANUARY: KITTILÄ, FINLAND put his headphones his erratic behaviour on a Virgin fl ight from A Norwegian Air Shuttle fl ight preparing to away for take-off. A few days later Virgin America Denpasar, Bali, to Brisbane. Bealey was depart Kittilä for Helsinki was delayed due to a issued an apology to Smith, stating that, “After a full allegedly so intoxicated that he thought he fake bomb threat. review of the incident, we believe it was the result was on a train in the Northern Territory; he of a misunderstanding that regrettably escalated had seemingly taken a Xanax tablet and then 17 JANUARY: AHMEDABAD, INDIA unnecessarily. We’ve apologised to Mr Smith for his consumed several glasses of wine. An Air India fl ight from Newark to Ahmedabad experience, which could have been better — and was the subject of a bomb threat. we’d welcome him back on board any time. As an airline that prides itself on our guest service, we take THREATS 18 JANUARY: MANAUS, BRAZIL incidents such as this one very seriously.” A note was found in the toilets at Brasilia's Juscelino Kubitschek Airport indicating that there was a bomb 24 JANUARY: HALIFAX, CANADA 15 DECEMBER: CARACAS, VENEZUELA on a TAM Airlines fl ight which had already departed Two passengers were interviewed by police after An Air France fl ight to Paris was cancelled Brasilia for Boa Vista. The aircraft diverted to Manaus their Air Canada fl ight from Toronto landed in after the authorities received information where passengers were evacuated using the Halifax. They had allegedly been involved in that a terrorist group might be planning to emergency slides. It is suspected that a former TAM a sexual act on board. The woman, 24, then detonate an explosive device on board. employee may have written the threatening note. became very angry and was arrested for causing a disturbance; even then she continued to be 20 DECEMBER: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 28 JANUARY: JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA verbally abusive and even kicked out at one of Gainesville Regional Airport was Two Saudia fl ights scheduled to take off from the arresting offi cers. The man, 38, was released evacuated after a bomb threat was called Jeddah for Medina were delayed after the without charge. in to a car rental company at the airport. airport received a bomb threat.
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