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26 JUNE: LONDON HEATHROW A South African Airways flight attendant Elphia Dlamini, 42, was arrested for trying to smuggle three kilos of cocaine into Britain through London Heathrow.
30 JUNE: TOKYO Osamu Maruoka, 59, a former Japanese Red Army member convicted of the 1970s hijackings of two JAL flights filed a lawsuit to have his life sentence suspended on the grounds that his prison is not equipped to deal with his failing health; he is also seeking ¥10 million in consolation money.
30 JUNE: SYDNEY Sudhamoy Bandyopadhyay, 65, appeared in court charged with molesting two teenage schoolgirls on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Sydney.
1 JULY: MICHIGAN Browns defensive lineman Robaire Smith was charged with having a loaded gun at a Michigan airport in November 2009. The gun, together with 15 to 17 rounds in the magazine, was identified by X-ray.
6 JULY: NEW DELHI Twenty-seven people who were to catch flights to Dubai were detained with fake visas at the international terminal of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport after a call was made to the call centres of two airlines indicating that two groups of Bangladeshis would try to hijack aircraft from Delhi.
7 JULY: BELFAST Francis Steenson, 55, was sentenced to five months in jail, suspended for three years, for his drunken behaviour on a Continental Airlines flight from Newark to
Belfast on 26 March. An off-duty police officer, Terry Spence, eventually subdued Steenson. He was also ordered to pay a total of £475 compensation to the two cabin crew members he assaulted and was fined £500 for behaving in a disruptive manner on board an aircraft, and using threatening language.
8 JULY: UK James Green, 31, was given a suspended sentence of 11 months and ordered to pay £4,800 in costs and compensation for attacking air stewards and threatening to open the plane doors on a Thai Air flight from Bangkok to Heathrow.
12 JULY: LONDON Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman were jailed for life after being convicted of conspiring to murder hundreds of people by blowing up transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives in 2006.
14 JULY: CHRISTCHURCH Asha Ali Abdille, a 35-year-old Somali refugee accused of hijacking a flight between Blenheim and Christchurch in 2008, admitted the hijacking charge in the High Court. She was remanded for sentencing on 27th August.
16 JULY: CALCUTTA Abdul Qasim Mohammad Saidullah, 65, was detained after seven rounds of cartridges were found in his hand baggage.
16 JULY: PARIS An Air France flight attendant, aged 47, was arrested on arrival at CDG and later admitted stealing cash and jewellery from sleeping business class passengers on long-distance flights this year. Thefts had been reported on 142 separate Air France intercontinental flights since January.
20 JULY: AMSTERDAM Military police arrested a Dutch passenger carrying a loaded gun in his jacket pocket at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he tried to board a flight to Curacao.
5 JULY: PHUKET, THAILAND Michael Isaac Jerozaiski, 24, was arrested in the departure lounge at Phuket International Airport and accused of stealing cash and a Blackberry telephone from another passenger's hand-luggage.
12 JULY: CHICAGO A law suit was filed against Southwest Airlines by the father of a 14-year-old boy who, it is alleged, was forced to sit next to a woman who made sexual advances towards the boy and offered him illegal drugs during a flight from Chicago to Orlando in 13 July 2008. The father claims that the flight attendants didn’t do enough to protect the boy who had asked to change seat but was told to sit down.
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20 JULY: LAS VEGAS Marilyn Parver appeared in court seeking damages for negligence, false imprisonment and constitutional violations, having been arrested following a Jet Blue flight from New York to Las Vegas on 26 July 2008. Jet Blue had issue with the fact that Parver had taken video footage during the flight. Parver claims that the film did not contain any view of the equipment, security or control features of the aircraft, and had offered the crew to review what she had filmed whilst refusing to delete the footage. Parver also claimed that the Captain had contacted the TSA and Las Vegas Metro Police before the plane arrived, and "knowingly and falsely reported that Parver was intoxicated and had taken 'suspicious photos' of the airplane's cockpit, all in an effort to secure Parver's unlawful detention, arrest and imprisonment for nothing more than her refusal to delete the video."
21 JULY: PUERTO RICO A court in Puerto Rico ordered North Korea to pay $378 million compensation to the families of those killed in a 1972 terrorist attack at Lod Airport. The plaintiffs claimed that Pyongyang funded the training of the terrorists involved in the attack which left 26 people dead, including 16 Puerto Rican pilgrims.
August 2010 Aviationsecurityinternational
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