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SABOTAGE & ATTACKS 12 OCTOBER: NASHVILLE
A Delta Air Lines flight en route from Seattle to Atlanta
17 OCTOBER: RIO DE JANEIRO diverted when Paul Marchuk III, 22, starting chanting
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A police helicopter was shot down by a drug gang, verses from The Bible and tried to prevent the woman
killing the two police officers on board. sitting next to him getting up to use the restrooms. He
is alleged to have told her that his blood would be on
her. He was restrained by a crewmember and six
passengers and was arrested on arrival.
13 OCTOBER: KELOWNA, CANADA
An Air Canada Jazz flight en route from Vancouver
to Fort McMurray had to divert following a row
regarding a passenger who was alleged, by cabin
crew, to have stolen beer from the drinks trolley.
HIJACKS &
ATTEMPTED HIJACKS 22 OCTOBER: JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS 19 OCTOBER: ARAD, ROMANIA
Reports emerge that a Flybe aircraft was targeted A Blue Air flight, en route from Madrid to Bucharest,
21 OCTOBER: CAIRO by a green laser a few seconds before it landed at diverted to Arad as a resulted of a 30-year old intoxicated
Mohamed Hamad, a 28-year old Sudanese Jersey Airport. The laser was shone from the Red man’s behaviour. He was later fined 50 Euros.
man who boarded an Egyptair flight in Istanbul Houses area of St Brelade.
holding a forged passport under the name of 19 OCTOBER: MOMBASA
Mus’ab Ibrahim Khogali, attempted to hijack 23 OCTOBER: MOGADISHU A passenger demanded to get off a South African
the Cairo-bound flight to Jerusalem. Hamad Insurgents launched a mortar attack against the airport Airways flight 10-minutes prior to its landing in
used a plastic knife from a meal tray to threaten as the Somali President departed on a flight to Uganda; Mombasa, trying to open the aircraft door as he
the crew and demanded the aircraft divert to at least 18 people were killed and 50 injured. did so. He assaulted the crewmember who tried
Jerusalem in order to liberate the city. He was to intervene and spat at and made racist remarks
restrained by two sky marshals and arrested 25 OCTOBER: PESHAWAR towards other passengers. He was arrested by the
when the flight landed in Cairo; he was found Seven Russian-made anti-personnel mines were authorities on arrival.
to be intoxicated. identified and defused under a bridge close to the
Peshawar International Airport. 25 OCTOBER: HOLGUIN, CUBA
24 OCTOBER: SANA’A, YEMEN A passenger on a Sunwing Airlines flight, operating
A passenger on a domestic Al Saeeda Airlines 15 NOVEMBER: KABUL from Holguin to Montreal ,repeatedly tried to
flight 146 from Sana’a to Aden via Ar-Rayyan Two rockets were fired at the military part of Kabul’s consume the alcohol he had bought at the airport and
tried to hijack the flight so that it would go international airport. then became aggressive towards crewmembers. He
directly to Aden. No weapons were found, was arrested by the authorities on arrival.
although the passenger had claimed to have a UNRULY PASSENGERS
firearm in his baggage. 29 OCTOBER: EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA
9 OCTOBER: WASHINGTON DC ANC MP Vatiswa Bam-Mugwanya allegedly became
2 NOVEMBER: BOSSASO, SOMALIA David Bass allegedly refused to be seated and angry and threatened to hijack her South African
Two men, armed with pistols, boarded a intimidated crewmembers on a Continental Airlines Airlines Airlink flight, en route from Johannesburg to
Diallo Airlines domestic flight in Bosasso and, flight from Houston to Washington, resulting in the Mthatha, when the Captain announced that he could
whilst en route to Djibouti, attempted to hijack police meeting the flight on arrival and charging him not land in Mthatha due to bad weather, and was
it. When the hijackers were challenged by with causing a drunken ruckus on board. Bass later diverted to East London instead. Bam-Mugwanya
passengers, the hijackers became confused said that he had been in Honduras on a business was arrested on arrival, albeit that the media later
enabling the pilots to return to and land at trip and hadn’t slept for three days before boarding mistakenly reported that South Africa’s Deputy Tourism
Bossaso. On the ground, the hijackers tried the flight and that he had also taken Benadryl for an Minister Toko Xasa, who also happened to be at the
to escape, but police caught them after a brief allergic reaction. East London Airport, was the person charged. Bam-
gun fight during which one of the hijackers Mugwanya later failed to appear in court, citing her
was wounded. grandson’s funeral for her non-appearance.
27 NOVEMBER: SANA’A, YEMEN Left: Vatiswa Bam-
Airport security staff identified a 24-year-old man Mugwanya
who they believed was about to hijack a Yemenia Right: Toko Xasa
Airline flight scheduled to depart to Cairo. The man
was carrying a hand grenade and a loaded pistol in
his carry-on.
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