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21 JULY: FORT LAUDERDALE Omar Cumberbatch was arrested after he scaled the perimeter fence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport and boarded an unattended Spirit Airlines aircraft.
22 JULY: BRATISLAVA The Slovak Interior Ministry announced that the Ministry is to pay Stefan Gonda $23,130 compensation for damages he suffered when they planted a dummy IED, using real explosives, in his bag without his knowledge as a training exercise. Gonda, who had not known of the explosives, was later detained by Irish police for several hours.
23 JULY: DUBLIN Adam Busby, 61, the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army, was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for making hoax bomb threats against trans-Atlantic planes flying from Heathrow in May 2006. Busby has multiple sclerosis and is wheelchair-bound.
THREATS
6 JUNE: LONG ISLAND Draco Slaughter, 75, told a flight attendant that he had a bomb in his carry-on bag after his Southwest Airlines flight landed at Long Island MacArthur Airport.
30 JUNE: CHARLOTTE Danielle Shanese Smith, 25, was arrested and charged with making a false bomb threat before boarding a flight to Norfolk International Airport. Smith was
being questioned about anomalies on a body scan image when she claimed to be concealing a bomb.
2 JULY: ST. LUCIA Serge Basil Mishaud, a French passenger, was arrested at George FL Charles Airport after he told security screeners that he had a bomb in his bag and that he intended to use to blow himself up on board an Air Caribe flight to Guadeloupe.
14 JUNE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC An Israeli passenger claimed that an IED in his baggage would explode on board an American Airlines aircraft operating to New York.
16 JUNE: AL-ARISH, EGYPT The al-Arish International Airport was the subject of a telephone bomb threat resulting in the closure of the airport.
23 JULY: LONDON LUTON Dariusz Tkaczyk, 21, was charged after a flight from Luton airport was delayed for six hours after cleaning fluid leaked from his luggage on to a bag loaded on to the Portugal-bound aircraft.
23 JULY: NEW YORK Rodney Lorenzo appeared in court on charges relating to his having mailed letters to top airline executives threatening to unleash jihad on American Airlines after the carrier had fired him for hurling a coffee pot at a stewardess. The letters had "Boom!!" written on the envelopes, and contained pages from an employee handbook showing how to access the cockpit.
30 JULY: XIAMEN Lau, 37, was arrested for stealing a foreigner’s luggage and laptop at Xiamen Airport.
30 JULY: SALT LAKE CITY The U.S. Attorney’s Office dropped its case against Aboubacar Soumah, 39, who had been accused of inappropriately touching a 14-year old girl on a flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake City on 7 April. The assistant federal defender said that the alleged victim did not immediately report the supposed incident, gave differing statements in her follow-up interviews and “has a reputation for being less than truthful.”
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20 JUNE: LOS ANGELES A man was brought down by police with a Taser after he had run into the Tom Bradley International Terminal and claimed he had a bomb in a box that he had grabbed from a passenger at the check-in counter.
21 JUNE: TAIPEI A Taiwanese man, Pang, allegedly claimed to have a bomb in his luggage on a China Airlines flight destined for Shanghai.
25 JUNE: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A telephone bomb threat was called in citing a US Airways flight bound for Richmond from Charlotte. On its arrival, the plane was parked in a far corner of the tarmac and, more than an hour later, the 120 passengers were loaded onto shuttle buses with only their wallets and cell phones. Baggage and laptops were left on board during the investigation. Five hours after the plane had landed, passengers had their baggage and belongings returned to them.
29 JUNE: CAIRNS Noel Marama, 26, became angry about the time it was taking to disembark his Jetstar flight, so claimed that there was a bomb on board in an attempt to make the passengers move faster. He was later fined AU$4000.
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14 JULY: LANZHOU A China Southern Airlines flight, en route from Urumqi to Guangzhou, was the subject of a bomb threat and so diverted to Lanzhou. A week later a man named Jiang, 23, was arrested; he said he had made the claim to enjoy a thrill.
30 JULY: CAGAYAN DE ORO, PHILIPPINES Alvin A. Grey, assistant coach of Ascof-Lagundi (a Philippine Basketball League team) was arrested at Cagayan de Oro airport for cracking a bomb joke when he was asked to pay excess baggage charges for his Cebu Pacific flight to Manila.
30 JULY: MALAGA, SPAIN A Ryanair flight en route from Frankfurt Hahn to Fuerteventura diverted to Malaga after the airport of Fuerteventura received a phone call indicating a bomb was on board the aircraft.
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6 JULY: SHUANGLIU, CHINA An intoxicated man, aged 60, who was passing through the security checks at Shuangliu Airport yelled out that he had a bomb in his bag. He was later fined RMB400.
10 JULY: RECIFE, BRAZIL An Air France flight en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris diverted to Recife after the crew were told, in-flight, that a bomb might be on board. Air France said that a woman had called Rio de Janeiro's Galeao Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport warning of a bomb on board about 2.5 hours after the airplane departed from Rio.
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