AIR WATCH
6 OCTOBER: ORLANDO 25 OCTOBER: PORT MORESBY, 5 NOVEMBER: JAPAN
Kevin Brown, PAPUA NEW GUINEA A 35-year old Japanese man was arrested
32, originally Customs officials seized four Colt assault rifles, a for threatening to blow up JAL flights
arrested in April 9mm Glock semi-automatic and assault rifle parts departing from Incheon and Gimhae airports
2008 at Orlando from a passenger who had arrived on an Air Niugini in Korea. He had called and sent e-mails to
I n t e r n a t i o n a l flight from Manila. the airline on 12 occasions for a month and
Airport, was a half starting 16th August. He had earlier
sentenced to three 27 OCTOBER: BUTTE been deported from Korea for sending
years probation. Melony Pasold, 46, pleaded guilty to reporting a a threatening email to the JAL office at
Brown had phony bomb threat to officials at the Bert Mooney Incheon airport in July.
been identified Airport in Butte two years ago.
as a possible 5 NOVEMBER: HAVANA
threat by the TSA’s Behaviour Detection Officers, 29 OCTOBER: MALAGA Two Czech passengers, who were arrested on
which prompted a search of his luggage, where Ismael Berasategui Escudero, a member of ETA, 22 March accused of rioting and a breach of
components for pipe bombs, Vodka bottles filled with was sent to prison for 14 years in connection with the peace at Havana airport, were sentenced
nitro-methane, BB pellets, a rocket igniter, batteries, a failed VBIED attack on Malaga Airport in 2001. to eight months in gaol. They were said to be
lighter fluid and bomb-making instruction manuals Court papers stated that the device contained a intoxicated and continued drinking alcohol at
were found. Brown later confessed that he planned reported 53kg of Titadine, a type of dynamite used in the airport, ending up in a quarrel with airport
to build a pipe bomb once he arrived in Montego the mining industry. A one hour coded warning was employees who tried to calm them down. One
Bay, Jamaica. given to the authorities, who found a stolen Peugeot of the Czech passengers, an expert in martial
406 parked in an area close to the arrivals hall. The arts, started being aggressive and damaged
9 OCTOBER: LONDON device failed to function, and was rendered safe. airport equipment.
Kwaku Asante, a Ghana International Airlines flight
attendant, was sentenced to eight years in gaol for 11 NOVEMBER: GEORGIA, USA
carrying 2kg of cocaine in his baggage on a flight Dan Wayne Gryder, a Delta Air Lines pilot,
from Accra to London Gatwick in July. was suspended after it was reported that he
drove his car across the runway and taxiway
11 OCTOBER: NEW YORK at Griffin-Spalding Airport and boarded his
Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, was arrested at private aircraft. He then threatened to run
New York’s JFK and charged with the hijacking of into Sheriff’s Deputies with the aircraft when
a Pan Am flight on 24 November 1968. Soltren had they attempted to prevent him taking off.
hijacked the flight, en route from New York to Puerto Gryder was also charged with aggravated
Rico, to Havana when he and two accomplices assault and obstruction.
stormed the cockpit armed with knives and guns
they had smuggled on board in nappy bags. Soltren 30 OCTOBER: ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
opted to return to the USA and surrender to the US Louis Edwards, 40, was arrested as he tried to board
authorities four decades on as he wanted to be a flight to Orlando at Rochester with a loaded gun in
reunited with his family. his carry-on bag
15 OCTOBER: DUBAI 2 NOVEMBER: ST. LOUIS
A man, F.Y., was sentenced to three months Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was sentenced to two years
in prison for his intoxicated behaviour on an in prison for having stolen a Cessna 172 in the hope
Emirates flight from Tunis to Dubai on 12 April that he would be shot down. Leon’s attorney said
2009. He had claimed that he was wearing an her client had been suffering from severe depression
explosive belt and that he had taken control of the after his parents were killed in a car crash in Turkey
aircraft. He was also accused of slapping a fellow in 2002 and that, two days before the incident, his 12 NOVEMBER: ABUJA, NIGERIA
passenger and resisting crewmembers attempts girlfriend had called a suicide hotline and taken Leon A man was arrested after he was seen wandering on
to restrain him. to a hospital emergency room. the apron at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikwe Airport.
21 OCTOBER: CHATTANOOGA 3 NOVEMBER: ISTANBUL
Brian Harle Mathis, 45, was arrested It was reported that Hakan Ekinci, who hijacked a Turkish
going through security at the Chattanooga Airlines flight en route from Tirana to Istanbul in November
Metropolitan Airport with a Glock handgun, 2006 and diverted it to Italy, has applied to the Turkish
together with nine rounds of ammunition, in his Embassy in Rome to waive extradition proceedings
carry-on baggage. and has indicated that he will return to Turkey of his own
volition. He was released from gaol on 14 September.
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