22 MAY: NEW YORK Tauheed Epps, better known as Rapper 2 Chainz, was arrested at LaGuardia Airport after police allegedly found brass knuckles in his carry-on bag.
30 MAY: LAS VEGAS Miki Victoria Sudo, 26, was sentenced to federal probation including, 10 months of home confinement, for a bomb threat against a US Airways aircraft bound for Phoenix that her boyfriend had boarded on 11 September 2010.
30 MAY: KARACHI Iftikhar Ali, an aircraft engineer with Pakistan International Airlines, was arrested when a pistol with six bullets were found on him as he boarded a PIA flight to Muscat.
28 APRIL: SHANGHAI
An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on board an Air China flight preparing to depart for Chengdu.
5 MAY: NEWQUAY, UK A 43-year-old Italian man was arrested after he joked about a bomb at Newquay Airport.
5 MAY: MIAMI Frank Currier, 45, allegedly telephoned in a bomb threat claiming that a passenger was boarding a flight with a chemical bomb concealed in his laptop.
11 MAY: MALTA Two Transport Malta buildings were evacuated following a bomb threat.
15 MAY: CAIRO A threat message was found written on a mirror in the toilets of an aircraft being prepared for departure to Lagos.
23 MAY: KABUL
Five potential suicide bombers were detained in a vehicle containing 560kg of explosives near the entrance to Kabul International Airport.
26 MAY: DELHI Jeffrey Jinnin Worn was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport after he was allegedly found to be carrying 23 live cartridges, although no weapon, as he was about to board a Turkish Airlines flight.
28 MAY: ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN Valery Tolmachev, the former advisor to Kazakhstan's permanent mission to UNESCO, returned to Almaty from Rome. Tolmachev had been arrested in April 2011 for allegedly attempting to hijack an Alitalia flight, en route from Paris to Rome, to Libya. Initially he was charged with abduction and hijacking attempt, but the court ruled that he was mentally ill and dismissed the criminal charges. He was eventually reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown. It is believed he will return to work.
THREATS
3 APRIL: ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA A passenger on a Virgin Australia flight preparing to depart Rockhampton for Brisbane allegedly told other passengers that he had a bomb.
10 APRIL: COMOX, CANADA A Korean Air flight, en route from Vancouver to Seoul, diverted to Comox as a result of a bomb threat being telephoned to one of the airline’s call centres.
19 APRIL: DELHI An Air India flight, preparing to depart for Chicago, was the subject of a bomb threat.
27 APRIL: KARACHI A Pakistan International Airlines flight, en route from Karachi to Bahawalpur, returned to Karachi after a passenger, Javed Ansari, claimed that the plane could be hijacked. The passenger later claimed that his comment was made after a disagreement with a flight attendant.
27 APRIL: SHANGHAI Pu was arrested having allegedly made a hoax bomb threat call citing a flight departing Pudong International Airport.
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20 MAY: GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN A man was Tasered at Green Bay Austin Straubel Airport after he had been unruly at a security checkpoint and resisted arrest after he had questioned the police as to whether they thought he had a bomb.
23 MAY: MELBOURNE An Air Mauritius flight, en route from Melbourne to Perth, was forced to return to Melbourne when flight attendants found a soft-drink can with the word "bomb" written on a piece of paper and strapped to the can with masking tape.
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