Air
29 DECEMBER: LOD, ISRAEL 9 DECEMBER: WASHINGTON DC
Two youths were arrested for directing a laser Detailed TSA security procedures were
beam at a police helicopter. The pilot reported mistakenly posted on the TSA's website.
being blinded by laser flashes, and the police
Watch
air crew directed a Border Police ground unit to 18 DECEMBER: TIMIKA, INDONESIA
the location of the youths. Lod is a city next to 300 supporters of the Free Papua Movement
Ben Gurion Airport. blocked access to Timika’s Moses Kilangin
Airport to protest against the killing by
4 JANUARY: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA Indonesian security forces of one of the
An armed man held up a House of Coffees group’s commanders.
employee while she was counting cash before
the store’s 5am opening at Durban International
Airport. It is reported that at least R120 000
was stolen.
SABOTAGE & ATTACKS
20 JANUARY: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
1 DECEMBER: INDIA A man was arrested after he shot and wounded
A helicopter, carrying AICC General Secretary the leader of a local criminal gang, Arif
Digvijay Singh, was attacked by a mob after it Amiruddin (alias Tipu Truckanwala), who had
emerged that a famous actress, Nagma, who arrived on a flight from Dubai. His guards 22 DECEMBER: NEW YORK
was supposed to accompany the Congress returned fire, injuring two passengers. Passengers who had been waiting at JFK to
leader for a road show, was not going to show board Delta flights to Haiti for two days, as a
up. The crowd hurled slippers and stones at 24 JANUARY: QANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN result of snowstorm delays, and were then told
the helicopter. The Movement of Taliban in Afghanistan that they would have to wait a further 24 hours
claimed responsibility for a rocket attack until an extra flight could be laid on, became
4 DECEMBER: HERAT, AFGHANISTAN targeting the airport during a visit by the so aggressive that airport police had to be
Taliban militants fired two rockets at Herat Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Mladenov. called in.
Airport, causing slight damage to the runway. Six rockets fell inside the airport and one fell
200 metres from the Minister; four Bulgarian 25 DECEMBER: JAIPUR, INDIA
25 DECEMBER: DETROIT troops were wounded. Habib Hussain was arrested on his arrival in
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on a Northwest Jaipur having been identified as a stowaway
flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, attempted 30 JANUARY: URUMQI, XINJIANG, CHINA mid-way through an Air India flight from Medina.
to detonate an improvised explosive device A passenger set light to toilet paper in the Hussain had moved to Saudi Arabia six months
concealed in his underwear as the aircraft restroom of a China Southern Airlines flight earlier and was employed as a baggage loader
prepared to land. The incident prompted a operating from Urumqi to Wuhan. The crew at Medina Airport. He boarded the aircraft for
global review of aviation security procedures returned to Urumqi where two passengers maintenance work in the Airbus’ toilet and then
(and is the subject of much of the editorial were arrested. In 2008 a member of ETIM locked himself in. Hussain later said that Indian
content of this issue of ASI). had, allegedly, tried to create a fire on board workers were treated like cattle in Saudi Arabia
another China Southern flight that had originally and had not been paid on time, so decided to
departed Urumqi. return home. He was later released on bail.
INCIDENTS
9 DECEMBER: DENVER
Seven passengers were removed from a
United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles
when flight attendants became concerned
about their behaviour. They were re-booked
on a later flight.
28 DECEMBER: MARYLAND
Calvin Cox, a 51-year old homeless man, 26 DECEMBER: REYKJAVIK
attempted to steal a single-engine Piper Super A Lufthansa flight, en route from Frankfurt
Cub from Frederick Municipal Airport, but to Detroit, made an unscheduled landing in
crashed the plane before take-off. He was later Iceland after it was found to be carrying luggage
arrested in nearby woodland. whose owner had not boarded the plane.
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