AIR WATCH
11 DECEMBER: BANGKOK 7 JANUARY: GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN 18 JANUARY: SINGAPORE
Five crewmembers on an Air West Georgian- A Latvian passenger successfully appealed Vadim Beljanin, a 41-year old Estonian man,
registered aircraft were arrested when they against an 8-month prison sentence for his was fined the equivalent of US$11,000 for
made a refuelling stop in Bangkok, en route behaviour on a Ryanair flight in October and was having punched an air steward, damaged
from Pyongyang to Tehran. The aircraft was order to pay a fine of approximately $500 instead. a television monitor and trying to kiss a
found to be carrying munitions of war, including fellow passenger on a Singapore Airlines
35 tonnes of weapons, including RPGs and 7 JANUARY: VANCOUVER flight en route from Frankfurt to Singapore,
surface-to-air missile systems; the crew claimed Shannon Rennie, 34, was given a causing it to divert to Dubai. As Beljanin
they were shipping oil drilling equipment, 38-month prison sentence for trying could not pay the fine, he was sentenced
to take a loaded .38-calibre Smith to nine weeks in jail.
and Wesson and extra ammunition in
his carry-on bag through Vancouver's 18 JANUARY: ISLEWORTH, UK
airport security. J a c q u e l i n e
Metcalfe, a 47-year
7 JANUARY: SOUTHEND, UK old British Airways
Tom Baisden, 28, was given a 25-month jail flight attendant, was
term for his part in the theft of GBP £4million given a sentence
worth of Cartier jewellery from a Southend airport of 16 weeks,
warehouse, where he was employed, in 2001. suspended for two
Earlier, two other gang members were jailed: years, a two-year
Baisden's cousin, Gary Maughan, was given a supervision order
24 DECEMBER: BLACKPOOL, UK six-year term and Joseph Xenofondos, was given and ordered to pay
Cheryl Sweeney, 42, was banned from Jet2 flights a five-year term. The gang had made the raid look £3,500 costs for
for life as a result of her behaviour on one of their like a robbery by beating and tying-up Baisden. having stolen more than £400 worth of cosmetics
flights from Majorca to Blackpool in which she from the duty free cart on the flight on which she
threatened a flight attendant saying, "You have to 7 JANUARY: ISLEWORTH, UK was working. She was spared jail due to her being
give me a drink by law or you die," before making Helina Teferi, a 21-year old Ethiopian Airlines a single mother.
the shape of a gun with her hand and pointing it at flight attendant, was sentenced to three years
her head. When the aircraft landed, Sweeney was in prison for attempting to smuggle almost 19 JANUARY : ISLAMABAD
found lying across three seats in a pool of vomit £30,000 worth (10.5kg) of cannabis into the Five passengers were arrested for swapping
with a bottle of alcohol between her feet. UK on the carrier’s flight from Addis Ababa to their boarding passes as they waited to board
Heathrow on 12 October 2009. an Airblue flight to Manchester, UK.
1 JANUARY: AYR, SCOTLAND
Reports emerge that Gary McKerrell was fined £200 12 JANUARY: MANILA 20 JANUARY: ST. JOHN’S
for having flushed a cigarette down the toilet on a Hani Abdulelah Bukhari, a 19-year old Saudi Colleen Walsh, a former Global Television
flight from Lanzarote to Prestwick on 23 November. Arabian man dressed as a pilot, was arrested host and a CBC Radio newscaster, was
after he illegally entered a restricted area of fined CDN $2,400 for having been abusive
1 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES the airport. He later said that he was trying towards crew and then slapping a passenger
Brady Alan Mertens, 25, was arrested at Los to meet his father, a former Saudia pilot, off on an Air Canada flight on 31 March 2009.
Angeles Airport after he scaled the perimeter a flight from Saudi Arabia. Bukhari fainted She claimed she was suffering from
fence and entered the aircraft manoeuvring area. when he was arrested. menopausal exhaustion.
He was intoxicated and carrying a knife.
3 JANUARY: NEWARK
Haisong Jiang, 28, was arrested for ‘defiant
trespassing’ at Newark and causing the
airport to close for six hours. He had crept
past a guard to enter a secure area to kiss
his girlfriend goodbye.
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