AIR WATCH
7 JULY: PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA Jorg Mardos, 27, was arrested and charged with assaulting a cabin crew member after his South African Express flight bound for Durban returned to Port Elizabeth due to air traffic congestion in Durban. Mardos became angry when he realised that he, and 13 other people who were already in Durban for whom he was carrying World Cup match tickets, were going to miss the Germany vs. Spain match as a result. He was later sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for a year.
9 JULY: TOKYO A passenger became abusive and had to be restrained on board an Air Canada flight en route from Vancouver to Tokyo Narita.
10 JULY: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA Tina Seymour, 46, was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight, en route from Orlando to Providence, which was forced to divert due to her behaviour.
20 JULY: RYGGE, NORWAY A passenger on a Ryanair flight from Berlin Schoenefeld to Rygge bought some food inflight but then complained about its quality to the crew who, in turn, asked for the police to meet the aircraft on arrival in Rygge.
25 JULY: QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND An Australian man, aged 23, was removed from a plane due to being too intoxicated to fly.
29 JULY: WASHINGTON DC A US Airways flight that was waiting to take off for Boston at Reagan National Airport returned to its gate after the crew reported an unruly passenger on board.
31 JULY: COCHIN, INDIA Passengers on a Doha-bound Air India Express flight protested onboard, and later in the streets, as their flight failed to take off after hours of waiting for technical reasons.
JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS
4 JUNE: INDIANAPOLIS Amber Robillard, a 39-year old Delta flight attendant was arrested after screeners discovered a 9mm Glock handgun, with 10 rounds, in her cabin baggage.
23 JUNE: MELBOURNE Raymond Lawson, 35, and Joseph Bucek, 40, were given 12-month reduced prison sentences after pleading guilty to three counts of making fake bomb threats in 2009, including making hoax bomb calls to Singapore Airlines. Bucek claimed to be a commander of the fictitious Australian Liberation Army.
23 JUNE: PHUKET, THAILAND Two baggage handlers were arrested after they were found to be in possession of property stolen from Thai Airways outbound passenger baggage.
24 JUNE: PHILADELPHIA US Airways pilot Joseph Pereira was arrested and later convicted of using his cell phone to take photographs up a teenager's skirt at Philadelphia International
Airport. He pleaded guilty to invasion of privacy and was sentenced on 27 July to one year of probation.
6 JUNE: SEATTLE Christopher T. Wilhite, 33, was arrested and charged with voyeurism having been accused of taking up-skirt photos of a woman on an escalator at a Seattle airport.
12 JUNE: RIGA, LATVIA Two customs officers were arrested after they accepted a bribe of 400 Euros from an undercover anti-corruption investigator.
15 JUNE: TAMPA David Heny Wysocki II, 29, pleaded guilty to federal assault charges stemming from a domestic violence incident last year during which he punched and bit his 8 1/2 month pregnant wife on an Air Tran flight from Baltimore to Tampa.
25 JUNE: ABERDEEN Nine Plane Stupid climate change protesters were convicted of causing disruption at Aberdeen Airport in March 2009, during which an emergency air ambulance flight was prevented from taking off.
24 JUNE: BOGOTA It was reported that Abel Nuñez Carrillo, an ELN guerrilla captured in 2007, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his involvement in the hijacking of an Avianca flight, en route from Bucaramanga to Bogota, on 12 April 1999. Some of the hostages were held captive for 19 months.
August 2010 Aviationsecurityinternational
www.asi-mag.com
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