Air Watch
UNRULY PASSENGERS
21 AUGUST: OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 2 SEPTEMBER: HALIFAX, CANADA
A flight, en route from Oakland to St. Louis, Darren Scott Martin, 32, was arrested when
8 AUGUST: FRANKFURT was forced to return when Darius Chappille, his Air Canada flight from Montreal landed.
An intoxicated Ukrainian seaman became 21, allegedly exposed himself to a female He had removed a plastic window shade and
violent on a Lufthansa flight en route from passenger and then punched her, before become aggressive towards the flight
Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Frankfurt. The flight stripping naked. attendant who challenged him for his actions.
attendants had to request the help of some of He was later fined $1,250.
his colleagues to restrain him. He was
arrested on arrival. 6 SEPTEMBER: MUMBAI
Jaidev Sharma and Gulshan Mehta were
11 AUGUST: SAO JOSE DO RIO PRETO, arrested on the arrival of their Two Go Air
BRAZIL flight from Bangalore for allegedly
A passenger was smoking a cigarette in the misbehaving with a female crewmember and
toilets of a TRIP Linhas Aereas aircraft and upsetting other passengers by their use of
caused the smoke detectors to alarm as the foul language.
aircraft was on final approach from Rio de
Janeiro. 11 SEPTEMBER: BOSTON
An American Airlines flight set to depart to
15 AUGUST: GANDER Paris returned to the gate when an argument
An American Airlines flight, en route from 23 AUGUST: CAIRNS developed between an Italian passenger and
Paris to Boston, diverted when a passenger Johnathon Bruce Thompson, 36, was the crew. The passenger was removed from
used plumber’s putty to attach his GPS to the arrested on arrival for having touched a flight the flight but not arrested.
side of the aircraft cabin and then refused to attendant’s leg and smoked in the toilet of the
hand the item to crew when other passengers Jet Star flight on which he was travelling to 15 SEPTEMBER: ALICANTE
became concerned that the device was an attend his mother’s funeral. He was later Colin Coats, 39, is alleged to have attacked a
IED. He was later fined CDN $10,000 and fined AU $650 for the assault and AU $550 for passenger and a crewmember on an easyJet
required to pay US$ 22,000 in compensation. smoking in the toilet. flight and then threatened to bomb
passengers, throw acid in their eyes and burn
15 AUGUST: ST.JOHN’S, CANADA 25 AUGUST: MALAGA their children. He was arrested on the flight’s
Sebastian Szubski, a 28-year old Polish Katie Price (a.k.a. Jordan), 31, hit the arrival from Glasgow but later released by the
canoeist who had appeared in the 2004 headlines for having allegedly lost her cool on Guarda Civil.
Olympics, was arrested when his flight, en an easyJet flight to Malaga when she read a
route from Halifax to London, diverted as a tabloid newspaper story referring to her sex 19 SEPTEMBER: BEIJING
result of his behaviour. He was hospitalised life. She is said to have started ranting in front A 20-year old man tried to commit suicide on
and released two weeks later without charge of passengers and being extremely vocal board a China Eastern Airlines flight, en route
as, due to mental illness, he could not be held about the sex acts that her boyfriend, Alex from Shanghai to Beijing, by opening the
criminally responsible for what he did. Reid, was reported to enjoy. Reid, travelling cabin door with a view to jumping. He was
with her, tried to calm her down. restrained by passengers. It was later
determined that he was depressed about his
26 AUGUST: SyDNEy love-life.
A passenger became disruptive on board a
Qantas jet just as it was about to land in 21 SEPTEMBER: KUWAIT
Sydney from Bangkok. He refused to be A Wataniya Airways flight, en route to
seated for landing and even tried to tamper Damascus, returned to Kuwait when an
with one of the over-wing exits, resulting in argument started with a passenger about his
his being restrained by crew and arrested refusal to stow his hand baggage in the
on arrival. overhead lockers. The passenger, allegedly,
then claimed there was a bomb in his bag.
27 AUGUST: BANGOR
A disruptive passenger caused a 25 SEPTEMBER: BERLIN
Thomsonfly aircraft, en route from Orlando A passenger on a Ryanair flight from Dublin
19 AUGUST: SASKATOON to Glasgow, to divert. was arrested on arrival for having been
A group of intoxicated men got involved in a disruptive and making threatening remarks to
fight on an aircraft set to depart for Ottawa. 31 AUGUST: LUBBOCK, TEXAS the crew.
Police removed the four men from the flight. An AirTran flight, en route from Los Angeles
to Atlanta, diverted when a passenger 26 SEPTEMBER: SAN FRANCISCO
20 AUGUST: GLASGOW attacked his mother who was trying to prevent An American Airlines flight, en route from
Pop star Katy Perry lost her temper with an him drinking alcohol due to the medication he Dallas to Tokyo, diverted when a passenger
airport security guard who wanted to search was taking. When the crew intervened he assaulted a crewmember.
her five suitcases. assaulted them too; he was then restrained.
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