AIR WATCH 24 OCTOBER: NEWARK
Jill Filipovic arrived in Dublin to give a lecture only to find, when unpacking her suitcase, that a TSA agent who had searched her bag in Newark had left her a personal message. Apparently the agent found it amusing that Filipovic had a vibrator in her bag and so wrote “GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL” on the requisite inspection slip.
8 NOVEMBER: HOBART, TASMANIA A power failure shut down the airport's security screening equipment. All passengers who had already been screened were rescreened as a precaution; some were already boarding a flight at the time, including Tasmania's Premier Lara Giddings. A Virgin Australia flight was delayed 25 minutes and a Jetstar flight left 24 minutes late.
19 NOVEMBER: MANILA
Elijah Lingaolingao, aged 2, was attacked from behind by an explosives detection dog as he was about to board a Philippine Airlines flight to Cebu. The dog's handler, Christopher Luig, had fallen asleep and left the Belgian Malinois running free.
22 NOVEMBER: NEWARK Screeners detected a knife disguised as a credit card, sandwiched between several real credit cards, in a passenger’s wallet.
23 NOVEMBER: SUGAPA, INDONESIA A Cessna Caravan, operated by regional airline Susi Air, crashed following an aborted landing when a local resident strayed too close to the landing strip. Albert Citores, the Spanish co-pilot, was reported killed. The New Zealand pilot, Jesse Becker, survived but was in critical condition with burns over much of his body. There were no passengers on the aircraft, which was delivering supplies to the remote area. The person walking on the air strip was hearing-impaired.
6 NOVEMBER: MIAMI
A passenger on an American Airlines flight preparing to depart for Washington DC found a "crude ice pick" in his seat pocket. All passengers were rescreened.
7 NOVEMBER: CHICAGO A live Vietnam War-era device, identified as an M49A1 phosphorous trip flare, being sent by air mail to Japan, was found in the mail facility at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. It had been listed on the shipping manifest as a "military training dummie".
14 NOVEMBER: NEW HUDSON, MICHIGAN Whilst police were investigating the theft of fuel from an aircraft at Oakland Southwest Airport, they noticed a plastic bottle with cotton sticking out of it. Affixed to it was a note saying, ‘Cop killer $5.00 or 5 for $200.00’. They summoned the Michigan State Police bomb squad who found it was filled with black powder explosives.
16 NOVEMBER: NEW YORK
The Captain of a Chautauqua Airlines flight en route from Asheville to La Guardia managed to get stuck in the toilets in-flight. He called out to a passenger to alert the First Officer. The First Officer, however, interpreted the notification as a security threat and alerted Air Traffic Control saying, “The captain has disappeared in the back, and I have someone with a thick foreign accent trying to access the cockpit right now, and I’ve got to deal with this situation”. Eventually the Captain did manage to free himself in time for him to land the plane.
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24 NOVEMBER: LOS ANGELES Corinne Theile, 32, nicknamed ‘Bikini Girl’, arrived at Los Angeles Airport dressed only in a bikini as part of her on-going protest against 'invasive' security screening.
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