AIR WATCH


25 NOVEMBER: SYDNEY Qantas launched an enquiry when passengers complained about the behaviour of an off-duty pilot and a female passenger during a flight from London to Sydney. The couple were having a sexual encounter in the Business Class section in public view.


26 NOVEMBER: TRIPOLI, LIBYA As part of a protest, about 100 Libyans surrounded a Tunisair flight at Tripoli's Mitiga airport and blocked its departure. Some of the protesters had tried to board the aircraft but the Captain shut the door and barred them entry. A few of the protesters had weapons and wore combat fatigues, but most of them were civilians.


27 NOVEMBER: REYKJAVIK Jan Anfinn Wahl, a Norwegian Hells Angel, was prevented from entering Iceland by police officers at Keflavík International Airport. Wahl had arrived in the country to attend a court hearing at the Reykjavík District Court. He was suing the Icelandic state for deporting him two years earlier despite his having no criminal record. He was eventually represented in court by three representatives of Hells Angels in Iceland, including Einar Marteinsson, their Icelandic leader. Wahl was again deported.


28 NOVEMBER: LOS ANGELES A passenger bound for Reagan-Washington National Airport was found to be carrying a stun gun disguised as a phone. The item was confiscated but she was allowed to continue her journey.


29 NOVEMBER: MILAN A Sikh pilot and a crew member of a Jet Airways flight were asked to take off their turbans during a security check before the flight they were operating could depart for Delhi.


JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS


13 SEPTEMBER: HANOI A Laotian passenger was arrested at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport when security found 0.5 kg of TNT and a hunting rifle in his checked luggage on his arrival from Paris. It is reported that the man was a farmer who wanted the rifle for hunting and the TNT to make bullets for it.


Einar Marteinsson


14 SEPTEMBER: KHABAROVSK, RUSSIA A suspected IED was found in the carry-on baggage of an Azeri passenger bound for Moscow. He claimed that the item – which turned out to be a cartridge reloading kit and more than 2kg of lead shot contained in plastic bags - had been given to him by the Police to test airport security. Five flights were delayed as a result.


14 SEPTEMBER: NORTH DAKOTA Eder H. Rojas, 22, the flight attendant accused of setting paper towels on fire on a Compass Airlines flight in May 2008, because he was upset about having to work a route from the Twin Cities to Regina, changed his plea to guilty. Rojas helped put out the fire, as he had done on another flight five weeks earlier,


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