www.asi-mag.com OCTOBER 2015 - FEBRUARY 2014 These are extracts from the regular issue – to RECEIVE your copy of the full printed edition, including all the news/features, then SUBSCRIBE via www.asi-mag.com/subscribe www.asi-mag.com THE GLOBAL JOURNAL OF AIRPORT & AIRLINE SECURITY Dear Admiral ALSO: Neffenger: SECURITY & ROUTE SELECTION a challenge to TSA's INFRARED IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CIVIL AVIATION IN THE DIGITAL NOW new administrator SHENZHEN AIRLINES ARSON MAIN MEDIA SPONSOR TO: HUMAN HUMAN RIGHTS & REMAINS & ISLAMIC LAW AIR SHIPMENT 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.