AIR WATCH Air Watch SABOTAGE & ATTACKS
4 SEPTEMBER: MONA, ANGELSEY, WALES Doug Blair, 56, found that the speedometer of his ARV Super2 plane was not working after he took off from Mona Airfield with his son on board. Police subsequently commenced an enquiry into the probable sabotage of the private aircraft as an initial inspection of the speedometer revealed that glue or resin was the cause.
26 OCTOBER: BRISBANE Michael James Oakley (left) and Garrett Thomas Moore
14 OCTOBER: SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS Six men were shot dead and 3 were wounded as they left the airport car park in San Pedro Sula in SUVs. No motive was established.
Qantas called in the Australian Federal Police to investigate following an alleged attempt to sabotage a B-767 undergoing maintenance at Brisbane Airport. Engineers noticed several wires were cut on the in- flight entertainment system.
24 SEPTEMBER: JIJEL, ALGERIA Terrorists opened fire on the airport perimeter of Jijel’s Ferhat Abbas Airport and then launched an RPG-7 at an unattended military helicopter. Troops and police responded with machine-gun fire.
1 OCTOBER: BINGOL, TURKEY An airport construction site was attacked by people believed to be members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Construction workers were taken hostage as the attackers set light to the administrative building and a vehicle on fire. After giving the workers speeches about the PKK, the attackers tried to escape in a vehicle owned by the construction site, but it got stuck in mud and they had to escape into the woods on foot.
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29 OCTOBER: SOUTHEND, UK 15 members of the protest groups, Plane Stupid and Climate Rush, were arrested at Southend Airport after they breached the perimeter and entered the manoeuvring area. They were protesting against the planned 300m runway extension to accommodate larger aircraft.
29 OCTOBER: MEXICO CITY Nick Aaronson, a 27-year-old US Airways flight attendant, was found strangled to death in his Hilton Hotel room in Mexico City during a layover. He was discovered lying naked on the ground next to a bed
with his hands bound and a belt around his neck. Jose Manuel Ramirez, 20, was arrested the following day and charged with Aaronson’s murder and the theft of his personal belongings.
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2 OCTOBER: ATHENS €1.43 million were stolen from an Alpha Bank branch at Athens International Airport. Subsequently five people were arrested; one Albanian man was found to be in possession of €740,000, £9,000 and $31,000. One of those arrested was a clerk at the bank and the son of one of the security guards; he is alleged to have pretended to have been a hostage during the robbery.
9 OCTOBER: TULSA Michael James Oakley, 21, and Garrett Thomas Moore, 22, were arrested in connection with the detonation of a homemade explosive device at a Tulsa International Airport car wash. The device was reportedly made of acid, tin foil and plastic bottles.
23 OCTOBER: SANTO DOMINGO A Beechcraft aircraft owned by the Puntacana Group was stolen from La Isabela Airport, at Higuero, and taken to Venezuela. It is believed that the Sinaloa drug cartel may have been behind the theft.
24 OCTOBER: MULIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Adj. Comr. Dominggus Awes, the Police Chief of Mulia city, was shot dead at Mulia Airport when two men lunged at him and pinned him down before shooting him in the nose and chest. It is believed that Papuan separatist rebels were responsible, although the Free Papua Organisation denied its involvement.
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