AIR WATCH
31 OCTOBER: KHABAROVSK, RUSSIA 11 NOVEMBER: SHENZHEN, CHINA JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS
A Lufthansa flight operating from Munich to Tokyo A Shenzhen Airlines flight that was preparing
diverted to Khabarovsk, due to the behaviour of an to depart for Shenyang was forced to return 30 SEPTEMBER: TOKYO
intoxicated passenger on board, only for the flight to the gate after a domestic argument erupted An American passenger who had arrived from
to then continue to Tokyo with the same passenger between a couple that developed into a full Dallas, and was in transit to Bangkok, was arrested
on board. scale fight. at a Narita security checkpoint when a loaded firearm
was found in his carry-on. The man claimed that he
31 OCTOBER: LARNACA, CYPRUS 14 NOVEMBER: CALGARY had not realised the firearm was in his bag and that
As a Cyprus Airways flight was preparing to depart An American Airlines flight, en route from London he had placed the gun, used for competition, in the
for Athens, a passenger, later named as Moreno Heathrow to Los Angeles, diverted to Calgary as a bag several years earlier.
Tavares Lizason, suddenly ran and opened the result of a disruptive passenger incident.
rear exit, blowing the slide in the process, and 4 OCTOBER: KARACHI
disembarked the aircraft. He then ran to the 15 NOVEMBER: COMOX, CANADA A Greek passenger was found to be concealing a
perimeter fence, climbed over it, and escaped; he An intoxicated passenger on a Westjet Airlines flight, 9mm firearm in the battery compartment of a laptop
was later arrested. en route from Calgary to Comox, caused the crew as he tried to board an Emirates flight to Dubai,
to summon the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to where he was supposed to connect with a flight to
3 NOVEMBER: MUMBAI meet the aircraft on arrival. Athens. The woman travelling with him, alleged to
Selvaraj Prabhakaran Pillai, 51, is alleged to have be his mother, was also arrested.
sexually assaulted a crewmember on a Jet Airways 16 NOVEMBER: BOSTON
flight from Dubai to Mumbai. He had gone to use the John Alexander Murray allegedly became disruptive
restroom but, having been in there for 20 minutes, in Canadian air space on a US Airways flight en
flight attendant Seema Chaturvedi knocked on the route from Philadelphia to London Heathrow; the
door; Pillai emerged and hugged her. After the flight flight diverted to Boston. The passenger had broken
landed, Pillai is alleged to have assaulted another air his arm before the flight and it was in a splint; the
hostess, Sushma Mistry. aisle of the aircraft is alleged to have been blocked
by the splint and the passenger is said to have been
6 NOVEMBER: FRANKFURT unhelpful in keeping his injured arm out of the aisle
Football fans caused an EasyJet flight, en route and reacted aggressively towards cabin crew when
from Manchester to Munich, to divert to Frankfurt asked to do so.
when a fight broke out between two of the English
fans travelling together to see Bayern Munich and
Schalke 04 play in a Bundesliga match.
9 NOVEMBER: LONDON GATWICK
It was reported that TV medium Derek Acorah, star
of “Most Haunted” is said to have been disruptive on 6 OCTOBER: READING, UK
a Monarch Airlines flight from Alicante to London and Salman Mukaty, 27, was sentenced to five years
that he had a row with his wife and then swore at the imprisonment with a recommendation for deportation
mother of a baby. after serving his sentence, for claiming that a team of
suicide bombers were planning to carry out attacks
at airports throughout the UK.
23 NOVEMBER: KOLKATA
A claustrophobic Buddhist monk, 45, opened the
emergency exit of an Air India flight preparing
to depart for Yangon because he wanted some
fresh air.
26 NOVEMBER: MANCHESTER
John Gordon, 65, was accused of head-butting a
flight attendant on a Thomson Airlines flight from
Sharm-el-Sheikh. Gordon claimed that he was
chatting to the air hostess and that their heads
accidentally touched when he stood up.
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