Air Watch
27 SEPTEMBER: HELSINKI 13 AUGUST: AUCKLAND 30 AUGUST: vERONA
A passenger threw a cigarette butt in the A World War II grenade, that was being Two teenage girls caused the closure of
toilets of an Air Finland aircraft en route from posted to a collector, resulted in the the Departure Hall after they used
Malaga to Helsinki. Paper in the toilet started evacuation of the mail centre at Auckland personal defence sprays that had not been
to smoulder, but was extinguished by crew. Airport when it was identified by an X-ray identified at the screening checkpoint.
operator. Passengers suffered from sore eyes and
27 SEPTEMBER: ROCHESTER, nausea, yet the girls managed to board
MINNESOTA 13 AUGUST: MyRTLE BEACH their flight to Cagliari, where they were
A frustrated passenger’s behaviour resulted in his A DirectAir flight preparing to depart for later arrested. It is reported that their
removal from a US Airways flight, originally bound Pittsburgh was evacuated due to intent was to show how ineffective the
for Minneapolis, which had diverted to Rochester passenger concerns regarding the security regime was in Verona.
due to bad weather conditions. conversation another passenger was
having on his mobile phone. It later 30 AUGUST: BASTIA, CORSICA
29 SEPTEMBER: HyDERABAD emerged that the passenger in question An Air France flight, en route from Tunis to
Riyat Kalfan was arrested and charged with was simply discussing a crime that had Paris, diverted when a strange electronic
misbehaving with a flight attendant on an taken place. device was found strapped to an armrest.
Emirates flight from Dubai.
16 AUGUST: EASTER ISLAND, CHILE 31 AUGUST: LA GUARDIA, NEW yORK
30 SEPTEMBER: CALGARy A group of islanders parked two vehicles on A Panamanian immigrant was shot and
A passenger, arriving on a Westjet flight from the airport’s runway, effectively closing the dumped from a vehicle at the east taxi
Saskatoon, was handed over to the police for airport, in order to protest against the number holding area of La Guardia Airport. Despite
grabbing a flight attendant’s arm as she was of Chilean mainlanders emigrating to the the single gunshot wound to the chest, the
securing the cabin for landing. island. The 20 demonstrators from the Rapa man is expected to recover.
Nui Parliamentary Group ended their protest
30 SEPTEMBER: KAHULUI, HAWAII when they were offered a videoconference 1 SEPTEMBER: PARIS
Two women, arriving on an American Airlines flight with Chile’s deputy interior minister, Patricio Access to Terminal 3 at Paris Charles de
from Dallas, were arrested for their allegedly Rosende, who agreed to set up a working Gaulle Airport was obstructed as Police and
drunken and violent behaviour on board. group to assess the extent of the problem. taxi drivers fought running battles using
Three Lan Chile flights to and from Santiago rubber bullets and stones in a riot that
were cancelled. stemmed from the alleged brutal arrest of a
INCIDENTS
taxi driver for failing to pay the monthly fees
28 AUGUST: SENTANI, INDONESIA due for his taxi licence.
1 AUGUST: NEW yORK Sentani Airport’s runway was occupied for
The central terminal building at La Guardia almost two hours by tribal groups seeking 28 SEPTEMBER: LOS ANGELES
Airport was evacuated after the discovery of a compensation from the local authorities for Just before a United Airlines flight was going
suspected IED, which later turned out to be a the use of their land for the airport. to take off for New York, a Middle Eastern
hoax device carried by an intoxicated man ran to use the toilets, ignoring the flight
homeless man. 29 AUGUST: BLOEMFONTEIN, attendant’s requests that he remain seated.
SOUTH AFRICA The aircraft returned to the gate resulting in
5 AUGUST: vILNIUS A shootout commenced when a man escaped the man, and his travelling companion, being
An old wartime explosive device was from the police at Bloemfontein airport. He removed from the flight.
found in a remote part of Vilnius was originally arrested after he had scaled
International Airport whilst contractors the perimeter fence and run across the 29 SEPTEMBER: CAIRO
were laying electrical cables. runway. He then became violent and attacked A Delta Airlines flight, en route to New York,
police with a broken bottle neck. A police returned to Cairo when a passenger told the
7 AUGUST: LONDON HEATHROW firearm was dropped during the struggle and crew that he was worried that he had
A German passenger, frustrated at the the man picked it up and fired several shots received a package from a friend just prior to
intensity of the security checks, stripped at the police. They then returned fire and hit a departure and did not know what the contents
naked at a security checkpoint, resulting in car in the vicinity. were. It emerged it was a birthday cake.
his arrest.
9 AUGUST: vLADIvOSTOK
JUDGEMENTS &
The body of a man in his early twenties, who
ARRESTS
had been dead for five days, was found in the
wheel well of a Vladivostok Avia Airlines 17 AUGUST: KABUL
Airbus A-320-200 that had landed in A truck was stopped when it approached a
Vladivostok from Khabarovsk. The man, security checkpoint and, following a
presumably a stowaway, had died of search, explosives were found. The driver
hypothermia. Engineers noted a hand that was arrested.
was protruding from the bay during a post-
flight inspection.
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