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4 MAY: MIAMI Rolando Negrin, an airport security guard, allegedly battered a colleague, Hugo Osorno, who ridiculed him for days about the size of his manhood after he walked through a hi-tech body scanner during a training course.


15 MAY: SARATOGA Kyle E. Towers, 42, lost control of his car while driving home and careered through the airport's perimeter fence, striking a plane owned by the Adirondack Soaring Club. The plane was seriously damaged in the crash.


5 MAY: BAGHDAD Around 200 Iraqi Airways employees demonstrated at Baghdad International Airport. Iraqi Airways' chief executive Kifah Hassan Jabbar had his passport seized and the plane he arrived on impounded at London's Gatwick Airport on 2 May, after its first commercial flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years, as a result of a dispute with Kuwait Airways in which they claim that Iraqi Airways owes it $1.2 billion, a dispute dating back to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.


17 MAY: TOKYO A Delta Airlines flight, en route from Tokyo Narita to Minneapolis-St Paul, returned to Narita after two Chinese male passengers in their 20s refused to come out of a locked lavatory. When they eventually did, a crewmember discovered a plastic bag containing an unidentifiable liquid, which laboratory tests allegedly later determined was urine.


19 MAY: N’DJAMENA, CHAD Khalil Ibrahim, a Darfur rebel leader and head of the Justice and Equality Movement, was refused entry to Chad when his flight arrived from Libya. The Chadian authorities are then reported to have destroyed the passports of everyone in his party and ordered him to return to Tripoli.


20 MAY: BOSTON A JetBlue pilot was held at Boston Logan Airport before takeoff after allegedly threatening to kill himself following an argument with his girlfriend. He was sent to hospital for evaluation. Although armed, he was not charged with possession of a firearm because he was a member of the Federal Flight Deck Officer programme.


THREATS 20 MAY: MUMBAI


5 MAY: KOLKATA The crew of a SpiceJet flight en route from Delhi to Kolkata declared a security incident on board after passengers reported a suspicious conversation, relating to aircraft hijacking, between two passengers, one wearing a burqa.


12 MAY: BERLIN Two Russian men who claimed to be pilots were arrested by Police at Berlin Tegel Airport after a fellow passenger reported that she overheard them discussing the hijack of an Air Berlin flight to Moscow.


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5 APRIL: TULSA A man was arrested at the airport after he threatened to detonate a bomb at a security checkpoint.


10 APRIL: ATLANTA A passenger on a Delta flight, en route from Minneapolis-St.Paul to Atlanta, discovered a customer feedback card with the words ‘This plane will go down’ written on it.


26 APRIL: XIAMEN A flight to Nanjing was delayed for two hours at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport after a man, later identified as Wang, falsely claimed there was a bomb in his luggage.


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An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on board a Kingfisher Airlines flight preparing to depart Mumbai for Lucknow.


21 MAY: LAHORE An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on board a Pakistan International Airlines flight preparing to depart Lahore for Islamabad.


28 APRIL: GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA A Continental flight from Houston to Dulles diverted to Piedmont Triad International Airport following a bomb threat.


1 MAY: HANGZHOU A China Airlines flight, en route from Taipei to Shanghai, diverted to Hangzhou after a passenger told cabin crew his luggage contained explosives.


1 MAY: PHILADELPHIA A threatening message was discovered on the wall of a toilet on a United Airlines flight en route from Chicago to Philadelphia.


8 MAY: CAPE COD An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on an unspecified flight operated by Cape Air. As a result, the decision was taken to ground and search all 63 aircraft in the fleet.


10 MAY: MIAMI An anonymous caller told a 911 operator that there was a bomb on board an American Airlines flight from San Juan to Miami, and that a second device was located at the airport Post Office.


14 MAY: RIGA, LATVIA An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on board an Air Baltic flight en route from Riga to Berlin.


15 MAY: VANCOUVER An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on board a Cathay Pacific flight en route from Hong Kong to Vancouver.


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