AIR WATCH
12 MAY: LUBBOCK, TEXAS Johnathan Ivins, 20, was arrested and accused of making threats on the Internet to blow up a plane at the Lubbock airport. The indictment quoted the threat: "I'm building a bomb as you speak. I work at the airport as a Technician. I go inspect planes and get paid $20 an Hour. You think you won. Well I got plans for implanting a 10 hour bomb in one of the vents. Hahahahaha when that plane goes boom you'll know what I'm talking about. I don't care if I get caught. They call me the hero. Your asses is going down I'm just waiting for the right time. I'm also implanting an another bomb somewhere in a big city. Plus there's muslim country's who want to destroy the American satellites. I look too much of american but I have a quarter of a muslim in me plus 1/16 of a jew in me so. Don't worry you'll go your turn f...... Yankee doodle dandy."
12 MAY: EDINBURGH Andrew Purdy, who threatened to bomb Edinburgh Airport in retaliation for having trouble hiring a car, was fined £300 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Andrew Purdy made the threat after losing his temper with staff at Hertz in Edinburgh. He claimed that there would be a bomb at the airport and that people would be killed.
15 MAY: ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA Kristy Louise Grove was arrested after security screeners found a handgun in her carry-on bag as she was preparing to board a flight to Chattanooga.
17 MAY: PUERTO RICO Jose Pol, 59, was arrested at Puerto Rico's international airport when he was about to board a JetBlue flight to Boston carrying a stun gun, a pepper spray canister, four box-cutters and a switch blade knife.
20 MAY: SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS Two Mexican pilots abandoned their aircraft on the airport runway at La Mesa international airport and were arrested as they tried to leave the airport. Whilst police were investigating a possible drug trafficking connection, the pilots claimed that they were simply delivering the plane to a high-ranking Honduran official.
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21 MAY: MADRID ETA members Igor Portu, Martin Sarasola and Mikel San Sebastian were found guilty of two murders, 48 attempted murders and terrorist damage, and were sentenced to a total of 1,040 years each for their placing a car bomb at Madrid Barajas Airport in 2006 that killed two Ecuadorian nationals. The men will also each have to pay compensation of €1.2 million to the families of the two Ecuadorians.
8 APRIL: LOS ANGELES A security screening area at Los Angeles Airport Terminal 7 was closed for almost two hours, after a male passenger left the area with a bag that had been identified for secondary screening.
19 APRIL: BUDIARTO, INDONESIA Two men trespassing on the airport were killed when they were struck by a single-engine aircraft.
INCIDENTS
3 APRIL: JOHANNESBURG The flight crew of an Air Zimbabwe flight, en route from Harare to Johannesburg, accidently set the transponder to indicate that the flight was being hijacked.
3 APRIL: LIVERPOOL Two German women were arrested after they tried to take the body of a dead relative on board a flight to Berlin. Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses. The women, his widow and step-daughter, said they thought he was asleep. They ‘three’ had arrived at the airport in a taxi. A post mortem later revealed that the man had been dead for at least 12 hours.
5 APRIL: MUMBAI Police arrested four men for stealing airline fuel from Sahar airport through a web of underground pipes. They found that the main pipeline carrying Aviation Turbine Fuel from BPCL depots in east Mumbai to the international airport was connected at various points to an illegal underground pipe. This pipe led directly to an extraction centre in Kurla, from where the thieves had been running the operation for three months during which they had pumped out nearly three tankers of fuel every day. The scheme was uncovered when Chandrakant Eknath Bhosle, a 52-year-old security guard, noticed a strong smell of kerosene during his night patrol.
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22 APRIL: DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND The terminal building at Dunedin Airport was evacuated after a suspected IED was discovered in a rubbish bin in a toilet. The device comprised a 750ml bottle filled with liquid, with wires coming from it, attached to two batteries, a circuit board and a wad of plastic-type material, all contained inside a wash bag. The device, described as an elaborate hoax, was dealt with by EOD action.
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