Air Watch SABOTAGE & ATTACKS


31 MARCH: CALABAR, NIGERIA A taxi driver forced his Audi through a perimeter access gate and onto the manoeuvring area at Margaret Ekpo Airport, before crashing it into the undercarriage of an Arik Airlines aircraft. The driver later claimed that his mission was to blow up the plane because Nigerians are unrepentant sinners and that Jesus Christ is the redeemer.


17 MAY: RAF WOODVALE, UK A Merseyside Police helicopter was damaged by vandals at RAF Woodvale.


18 MAY: TORONTO It was reported that a monument honouring the 329 victims of the Air India bombing has been vandalised.


22 MAY: LINKOPING, SWEDEN A KLM Fokker 70 aircraft was sabotaged prior to its departure to Amsterdam.


23 MAY: MODESTO Sydnee Alyster crashed through a fence into the airport, colliding with a Piper Maui outside the SkyTrek airplane hangar. A Piper Malibu was also damaged. Alyster then left her car at Hertz rent-a-car, seemingly not realising the damage she had caused.


UNRULY PASSENGERS 26 MARCH: BELFAST


An intoxicated man became disruptive on a Continental Airlines flight from Newark and ended up being restrained mid-flight


by Terry Spence (pictured), the Chairman of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Police Federation, who intervened when the man allegedly became aggressive and violent towards passengers and crew.


2 APRIL: LONDON Susan Boyle, the British talent show star, lost her temper with her assistant at London Heathrow when her private jet was delayed for two hours. She was in transit from Tokyo to Edinburgh.


4 APRIL: MBANDAKA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Between 30 and 100 rebels took control of Mbandaka Airport, killing 9 people in the process. Another nine, including three MONUC members, four Congolese soldiers and two police officers were killed when the airport was retaken the next day.


21 APRIL: BANGKOK A rocket propelled grenade was used to sabotage an aviation fuel tank used to supply Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. A preliminary police report claimed that the tank, which was half full of AvGas had been set alight by one of two M79 grenades fired into the compound from a nearby main road, one of which failed to explode.


3 MAY: JOHANNESBURG Three security guards were tied up and held hostage while an armed gang carried out a robbery at the Harvard Bar restaurant in the terminal building at Johannesburg Rand Airport.


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24 MAY: MANCHESTER Six members of the environmentalist group Plane Stupid cut a hole in the airport fence and chained themselves to the wheels of a plane in protest against the expansion of the World Freight Centre.


26 MAY: INDIANAPOLIS A laser was pointed at a Federal Express cargo jet as it was preparing to land at Indianapolis International Airport.


26 MAY: PRESTWICK The Captain of a Ryanair flight landing at Prestwick Airport was temporarily blinded by a laser beam.


26 MAY: GENEVA Reports emerge that an intoxicated Austrian man may face charges for blinding an Austrian Airlines pilot with a laser pen as he was landing at Geneva International Airport.


30 MAY: PESHAWAR A rocket hit near Peshawar airport.


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2 APRIL: TUCUMAN, ARGENTINA A number of soccer fans from Racing Club de Avellaneda became unruly on board a LAN Argentina flight from Buenos Aires to Tucuman. Three of them assaulted a flight attendant and threatened to set the aircraft alight.


4 APRIL: ANCHORAGE John Leigh, 56, a well-respected conservation officer at the International Tropical Timber Organisation in Yokohama, who was organising a major international conference on biodiversity, threatened to attack an American Airlines pilot on a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo. Leigh had downed six drinks and started swearing at cabin crew when they refused to give him more alcohol. The pilot left the cockpit to intervene, which was when Leigh made the threats. The flight diverted to Anchorage.


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