Air Watch HIJACKS
10 JUNE: PUERTO MALDONADO, PERU A Cessna Grand Caravan, operated by Aerodiana, disappeared with seven people on board whilst on a sightseeing flight over the Nazca lines. 20 days later, the pilot Francisco Curto and co-pilot Jorge Ríos contacted their employers from Puerto Maldonado to explain that they had been hijacked by the “tourists” and held hostage.
SABOTAGE & ATTACKS 8 JUNE: ISTANBUL
15 people, including two police officers, were injured after a bomb attack was carried out against a police minibus as it passed by Istanbul Atatürk Airport.
11 JUNE: SINGAPORE Antonie Mathieu Rongeot, 38, was arrested for damaging airport equipment whilst in transit, en route to Paris from Jakarta. Rongeot blamed the BP oil spill and the Icelandic volcanic ash for his frustrated outburst. He was fined S$5,000 for committing mischief and was ordered to pay Changi Airport Group the repair cost of the fire alarm manual call point he damaged when an Air France stewardess told him that he might not be able to make his connecting flight.
22 JUNE: OAXACA, MEXICO Protesting residents of San Jose del Progreso used trucks and other vehicles to block the road leading to Oaxaca's Xoxocotlan International Airport. The protesters were demanding that authorities investigate the earlier killing of the town's mayor.
26 JULY: DARFUR, SUDAN Militants hijacked a helicopter belonging to Russian UTair Aviation company. There were nine people on board working in Sudan on a UN contract.
29 JULY: MOSCOW A Kavminvodyavia airline flight that had departed Mineralniye Vody was hijacked by a man who claimed he had information valuable to pass on to the interior agencies. The seizure of the plane, which had 105 people on board, happened at 1545 and ended at about 1830 when, on the ground in Moscow, special forces disguised as doctors boarded the aircraft and arrested the man.
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27 JUNE: SAO PAULO A man walked up to the airport parking lot's payment booth and handed a note to the cashier telling her he would detonate a bomb unless she gave him the money in the cash register. He then fled with 15,000 reals ($8,400) and left a bag with a grenade next to a nearby ATM machine. The airport's two terminals were then closed for several hours while police detonated the grenade.
30 JUNE: JALALBAD, AFGHANISTAN A suicide bomber blew himself up at the main entrance to the airport, initiating a gun battle between Taliban insurgents and the authorities.
2 JULY: PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA The tribal chief of a village in Papua New Guinea opened fire on members of a rival clan at a parking lot outside Port Moresby's Jackson International Airport. Two bystanders suffered injuries when they rushed out of the parking lot to escape the gunfire. Operations at the airport were not affected by the incident.
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4 JULY: GERALDTON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Three aircraft parked on the tarmac outside the Mid West Aero Club at Geraldton Airport are believed to have been tampered with. Those responsible tried to prise open the doors of two Cessna aircraft and broke the wing lock on a third.
4 JULY: ABACO ISLAND, BAHAMAS A Cessna 400 Corvalis was stolen from Monroe County Airport and it crashed 1,000 miles away in shallow waters off Abaco Island in the Bahamas. The pilot was initially not found, but an American teenager on the run, dubbed "the Barefoot Bandit," was a prime suspect; Colton Harris- Moore, 19, who has no formal flight training, got his nickname for allegedly committing crimes while shoeless and is suspected of stealing cars and small airplanes to evade authorities since escaping from a halfway house near Seattle in 2008. He was eventually arrested on 11 July on the Bahamas' northern Eleuthera Island.
14 JULY: TIRANA, ALBANIA Two Montenegrin citizens who had just landed at Tirana Airport from the US were robbed by masked gunmen. One of the victims was transferred to the hospital in Lezha with injuries. The gunmen reportedly ran off with about 16,000 euros and the victims' personal belongings.
21 JULY: CEBU Jessie Jamodiao, a 34-year-old security guard from the Mustang Security Agency at Cebu Airport, shot and killed his manager, Sebastian Abne, in the retail area of the terminal building in a dispute over the cost of security refresher training.
August 2010 Aviationsecurityinternational
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