AIR WATCH
11 JANUARY: DUBAI 21 JANUARY: ANCHORAGE 31 JANUARY: PITTSBURGH
Two passengers were arrested when an Rhoda N. Kelsey, 32, was arrested A US Airways flight en route from Philadelphia
Emirates flight from Glasgow landed in Dubai. after allegedly causing a disturbance to San Francisco diverted due to an unruly
They had been involved in a brawl whilst on board an ERA Aviation flight to passenger incident.
intoxicated. One of the men was overpowered Anchorage. She is said to have used
by a sky marshal. the restroom and then started pounding JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS
on the door from the inside. She then
11 JANUARY: VANCOUVER partially opened the door for a flight 3 DECEMBER: MIAMI
A passenger was arrested on his arrival attendant and asked where the toilet It was announced that Florida-resident
f r o m M o n t r e a l ; t h e c r e w b e l i e v e d paper was; the flight attendant pointed Edmundo Ponce de León, believed to have
he had been smoking on board the out the toilet paper and tried to close been the lead hijacker of a Cubana flight
Westjet aircraft. the door, but Kelsey yelled at her, was in 1958, will not be prosecuted. Fourteen
abusive and hit her in the face. She was people died when the aircraft crashed in
13 JANUARY: HELSINKI restrained and arrested on arrival. Cuba after it was hijacked.
An intoxicated man started smoking in
the lavatory of a Finnair flight before it 23 JANUARY: DENVER
even departed Helsinki for Barcelona. A United Airlines flight, en route from
He became upset because the flight Washington D.C. to Las Vegas, diverted to
was delayed. Denver after a passenger tried to open a
door in-flight.
13 JANUARY: SHANNON
A passenger became disruptive and made 25 JANUARY: LAS PALMAS, SPAIN
threats against an Arkefly flight en route A passenger attempted to get into the cockpit
from Amsterdam to Aruba. The aircraft of a Thomson Airways flight en route from
diverted to Shannon. Cardiff to Gran Canaria. He was restrained and
arrested upon arrival.
14 JANUARY: ALICANTE, SPAIN
A passenger started to smoke, and refused 26 JANUARY: ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN
to stop, on board a Ryanair flight en route A female passenger became aggressive on a
from Santander to Alicante. He was arrested SCAT Airlines flight from Utapao, in Thailand,
and later fined to Almaty. Three men she was travelling with 7 DECEMBER: TOKYO
also became unruly, with one threatening Lin Ring, 27, was arrested for trying
14 JANUARY: MELBOURNE passengers and crew with a knife. They were to enter Japan using surgically altered
Tennis star Jelena Dokic’s boyfriend, Tin arrested on arrival in Almaty. fingerprints. The Chinese woman had been
Bikic, and her coach, Borna Bikic, started deported from Japan and was trying to
arguing with a passenger and the crew as 26 JANUARY: MUMBAI return. She is reported to have paid the
they accompanied her on a flight from Sydney A Kingfisher flight, preparing to depart equivalent of approximately US$ 16,000
to take part in the Australian Open. Police met to Hyderabad, returned to its stand for the re-grafting surgery, in which she
the flight on its arrival. when a passenger became abusive had the skin changed on her thumbs and
having twice been asked to put his index fingers.
seat-back in an upright position for
take-off. 10 DECEMBER: UK
Adam Khatib, 23, was jailed for life for his role
29 JANUARY: KOLKATA in the 2006 liquid bomb plot.
Tarun Mahanta, a mentally ill passenger,
became restless on a Jet Airways
domestic flight from Jorhat to Kolkata. He
continually changed his seats and then
gave the cabin crew a note, which he had
written on his boarding card, telling the
Captain to divert to Houston. He claimed
to have received a divine message saying
that the airplane would have trouble
landing in Kolkata, but the crew decided
to land there regardless.
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