7 APRIL: LAGOS


A Business Class passenger was seen to be stealing money from another passenger’s bag on an Arik Air flight from Abuja to Lagos. The witness asked the victim to check their bag; he found that 200,000 Naira in cash was missing and reported the theft to the crew who arranged for the police to meet the aircraft on arrival.


10 APRIL: DENVER


A woman at Denver Airport stripped naked in a departure lounge after being asked by security staff to stop smoking.


11 APRIL: AUSTRALIA Captain Grahame


Mackelmann, the Captain of a Trans Australia Airlines DC-9 which was involved in an attempted hijacking by an armed passenger on


a Coolangatta-Brisbane flight in June 1979, passed away.


12 APRIL: LAGOS


A power outage at Murtala Muhammed International Airport resulted in security officers having to conduct manual searches of all baggage and passengers.


15 APRIL: DELHI Arttu Karlella, a 27-year-old Finnish man, committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of the multi-level car park at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Arttu, who had been in India since New Year’s Eve, had been found wandering at the airport earlier in the day and had been taken to the Finnish Embassy. However, he was allowed to leave the embassy and he then returned to the airport where he jumped, despite a security guard’s alleged attempts to stop him.


15 APRIL: GENEVA Around 100 pro-Palestinian activists were being prevented from boarding a flight to Tel Aviv.


16 APRIL: DUBLIN


A Delta Air Lines flight, en route from Istanbul to JFK, made an emergency landing in Dublin after a passenger left his mobile phone in the aircraft’s toilets, plugged in to recharge. Another passenger found the phone, wrapped up in its charging cord, prompting fears that it might be an IED.


16 APRIL: TORONTO An attempt by Trevor Kendall, 33, to stowaway on board a Cope Airlines flight to Panama City failed when he was found in an overhead locker in the cabin.


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1 MAY: NEWARK Three Claymore landmine casings were found in a woman's luggage.


7 MAY: T. F. GREEN, RHODE ISLAND A father and his 4-year-old son were stopped by screeners, before they boarded a flight to Detroit, when they found gun parts and ammunition hidden inside the child’s cuddly toys. They were allowed to continue with their journey when the authorities were satisfied that neither knew the weapons were inside the toys.


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18 APRIL: LONDON Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, 25, used Twitter to express her concerns about the screener who gave her a patdown search at a security checkpoint. She wrote, “I got a security "patdown" by a woman at the airport that made me feel very uncomfortable and left no doubt about her sexual preferences.”


22 APRIL: INDIANAPOLIS


Kevin Johnson, 37, filed a police complaint against a flight attendant who tapped him on the knee with a magazine to wake him up on board a Million Air flight.


25 APRIL: BRINDISI An 84-year-old woman suffered a suspected heart attack on an El Al Israel Airlines flight, en route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. Although the flight was close to Tirana, Albania, it diverted to Brindisi. Unscheduled diversions present a major security challenge for the Israeli flag carrier.


17 APRIL: PORTLAND, OREGON


John E. Brennan, 50, was so upset by the screening process that he stripped naked at the checkpoint in protest.


8 MAY: WASHINGTON DC Details of an al-Qaeda bomb plot, interrupted in April, were released. The device is alleged to have been an updated version of the ‘underwear bomb’, but with no metallic components.


13 MAY: AUCKLAND A grenade was discovered in a post bag at New Zealand Post's branch at Auckland airport.


14 MAY: ENNISKILLEN, NORTHERN IRELAND A suspicious object was found on an aircraft at St Angelo Airport and was initially deemed to be a viable explosive device; it was later found not to be.


14 MAY: BREIGHTON, UK Breighton airfield, near Selby, was cordoned off while an army bomb team examined a suspicious object on a light aircraft which had arrived from Germany. It was later deemed to pose no threat.


18 MAY: NAIROBI A Turkish Airlines flight, en route from Khartoum to Mogadishu, diverted to Nairobi after concern was expressed that the aircraft might be vulnerable to attack by insurgents in Mogadishu.


20 MAY: TRIPOLI


Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man jailed in 2001 for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died in Libya.


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