AIR WATCH
27 DECEMBER: NEW YORK 16 JANUARY: NEW YORK
A crewmember found a firecracker between two seats on a Piedmont Jules Paul Bouloute, 57, who strolled, carrying a bag, through two secure
Airlines plane at La Guardia Airport. Thomas Ouelette was later taken into doors at JFK without being stopped caused the evacuation of thousands
custody and is reported to have told officials that he was unaware that of passengers and the grounding of all flights at JFK’s Terminal 8.
bringing a firecracker on board was illegal, and that it must have fallen Bouloute was returning from Haiti.
out of his bag.
17 JANUARY: BERLIN, FRANKFURT & DUSSELDORF
1 JANUARY: SEATTLE In a series of demonstrations against the proposed deployment of body
A 22-year old man locked himself in an airport restroom, claiming to be scanners at security checkpoints, groups of German protesters (named
armed. The siege situation lasted almost two and a half hours during ‘fleshmobs’) stripped-off and marched through the terminals of Berlin Tegel,
which parts of the airport were closed. When he surrendered to police Frankfurt and Dusseldorf airports. The demonstrations were organised by
negotiators, no weapon was found. the Piraten Partei (Pirate Party), a civil libertarian group, whose activists
use the motto 'you do not need to scan us - we are already naked'.
1 JANUARY: NASHVILLE
A suspicious package was found on a Northwest Airlines flight operating
from Detroit to Orlando, prompting its diversion to Nashville.
3 JANUARY: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
Enoch Hwang, 17, was found asleep inside a closed airport concourse.
He had missed his Delta flight the night before and was locked inside
the terminal.
3 JANUARY: COSTA RICA (INC)
Comedienne Joan Rivers, 76, was
denied boarding a Continental
Airlines flight to Newark-when the
gate agent became concerned
about her having two names on
her passport. Rivers’ passport
states, “Joan Rosenberg AKA
Joan Rivers”, as Rosenberg was
her late husband’s surname.
4 JANUARY: EDINBURGH
A souvenir sphinx was found in a toilet on an easyJet plane arriving in Edinburgh
from Madrid. A note was affixed to the sphinx that read, "I'm an Egyptian terrorist".
Some reports indicate that it was placed there as a joke by cabin crew.
5 JANUARY: DUBLIN
Stefan Gonda, 49, was arrested, and then speedily released, three days
after he arrived in Dublin from Slovakia. Gonda had unwittingly travelled
with plastic explosives placed on his bag to test security at Poprad-Tatry
Airport. The Slovak authorities claimed that sniffer dogs had detected the
explosives but that a policeman had forgotten to remove the sample and
then failed to tell his supervisor that the explosives were on board the plane.
When the authorities realised the mistake, the aircraft was set to depart.
Nobody notified the Irish authorities until three days later.
6 JANUARY: PARIS
It was reported that money had been stolen from five Air France business
class passengers whilst they were asleep en route from Tokyo to Paris.
15 JANUARY: TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN
A man locked himself in the restroom of a Skywest Airlines flight en route from
Chicago. As his behaviour had been suspicious and he had taken something
with him to the restroom, the crew were concerned that he had a bomb.
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