23 JANUARY: NEWARK Adam Blumenkranz, 43, was arrested on arrival off a JetBlue fl ight from Fort Lauderdale as cabin crew had found him to have been smoking marijuana in the toilets. He claimed he had the marijuana for medicinal purposes.
10 JANUARY: EL CALAFATE, ARGENTINA A bomb threat was found written on the mirror in one of the toilets on an Aerolineas Argentinas fl ight en route from Neuquen to El Calafate. Two men were arrested and they later admitted writing the message as a joke.
INCIDENTS
24 JANUARY: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS A United Airlines fl ight, en route from Houston to Ontario, diverted as a result of a passenger lighting a cigarette on take-off and then becoming disruptive.
28 JANUARY: MOSCOW
Alexander Dodds was hospitalised with a skull fracture after falling from stairs when, allegedly in an intoxicated state, he was exiting a plane at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport.
THREATS
4 DECEMBER: BOSTON A bomb threat was found in the toilets of a Virgin Atlantic fl ight en route from London Heathrow to Boston.
7 DECEMBER: DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND Dunedin International Airport was evacuated in the aftermath of a bomb threat
14 DECEMBER: NOVOSIBIRSK A bomb threat telephoned through to the police simply indicated that a Utair fl ight from Dushanbe might be the target. It was searched on arrival. The call was traced to a man with mental health problems living in Novosibirsk.
14 DECEMBER: DUSHANBE Police received a telephone bomb threat citing a Tajik Air fl ight to Moscow.
20 DECEMBER: LOS ANGELES Johnna Woolfolk was charged with providing false and misleading information for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to prevent an AirTran Airways flight to Atlanta from taking off with her husband on board after the couple had a fight.
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1 DECEMBER: BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA Baton Rouge Metro Bomb Squad was called to deal with a suspect IED found in an abandoned car with a smashed windscreen that was found in the airport’s short-stay car park. The device was found to be a hoax, comprising of sticks painted to look like dynamite, fi tted with a timer.
3 DECEMBER: NEWARK Five disarmed grenades were found in the luggage of a woman boarding a fl ight to Belgium. They were confi scated and the woman was allowed to travel.
7 DECEMBER: BAHRAIN Tools used to make explosives were found in a package which had come into Bahrain on a fl ight from Britain, via Dubai.
12 DECEMBER: ATLANTA A .22 calibre pistol discovered in a passenger's carry-on bag was accidentally fi red inside Atlanta airport, grazing a police offi cer. The gun was loaded with fi ve rounds.
14 DECEMBER: DENVER Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs attempted to fl y with two large bags of marijuana in his luggage. It was identifi ed by TSA but, instead of confi scating it, the TSA agent who inspected the bag allegedly simply left a note saying, 'C'mon son' and allowed Gibbs to fl y.
15 DECEMBER: EL PASO, TEXAS A stun grenade was found in a soldier's carry-on baggage.
16 DECEMBER: MOSCOW Russian Customs reported that it had seized radioactive sodium-22, an isotope that is used in medical equipment but has no weapons use, from the luggage of an Iranian passenger planning to fl y from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Tehran. The material had triggered an alarm in the airport's radiation control system, initiating a luggage search which resulted in the discovery of 18 pieces of the radioactive metal packed in individual steel casings.
16 DECEMBER: BANGKOK British TV star
Alan Davies alleged on Twitter that a Qantas cabin crew member told him to 'F*** off' and made his two-year-old
daughter cry whilst they were on a fl ight from Bangkok to London. He also claimed that the steward initially refused to give his name. When he complained to the chief steward, Davies alleges that the chief steward did not believe him.
23 DECEMBER: PLYMOUTH, UK Between 50 and 60 people demonstrated at Plymouth Airport on the day the
airport was due to formally close. The last fl ight actually departed in July, but the airfi eld was offi cially closed at 2230 on 23rd December.
4 JANUARY: GENOA, ITALY
300 employees of the shipbuilding company Fincantieri disrupted operations at Genoa's Cristoforo Colombo International Airport and blocked the departure of a fl ight to Rome and another to Monaco.
8 JANUARY: BANGKOK
A Thai Customs offi cer who objected to being searched hit a security
offi cer over the head. The whole incident was caught on camera and released on YouTube the next day. The Customs offi cer was demoted and transferred to an offi ce job.
February 2012 Aviationsecurityinternational
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