27 JUNE: DONCASTER, UK


British comedians spoke out in support of Paul Chambers, 27, who was fined £385 and charged court costs of £600 for sending "a menacing electronic communication" through Twitter. In January 2010, Chambers had tweeted a message to his 600 followers, after Robin Hood Airport was closed due to snow, saying ''Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your s**t together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!'' The comedians, including Stephen Fry, supported Chambers in court as they felt that the tweet was an obvious joke and that the conviction was a challenge to freedom of speech. A month later, in the High Court, Chambers’ conviction was quashed as the judges ruled that the Tweet had not been menacing.


11 JULY: FLORIDA Joshua A. Watson, 28, was arrested at the Southwest Florida International Airport having been found to be brandishing a badge indicating that he was a member of the police and carrying knives.


14 JULY: LONDON


The High Court ruled that the case of Mustafa Abdul Hussain, who had been one of the hijackers of a Sudan Airways flight to London in 1996, should be reviewed by the Home Secretary. Hussain had challenged the Home Office’s refusal of a visa giving him indefinite leave to remain in the UK on the grounds that others involved in the hijacking had been granted indefinite leave to remain and that he, therefore, was being treated inconsistently.


14 JULY: NEW DELHI


Sachin Gupta allegedly stole Rs 74,000 from an airport shop and was later arrested after a review of CCTV footage.


18 JULY: PORTLAND, OREGON A court ruled that John Brennan, the man who stripped off at Portland International Airport in protest at TSA screening tactics and who was subsequently charged with indecent exposure, was exercising his right to free speech and found not guilty.


29 JUNE: NEW YORK It was reported that eight New York-based federal air marshals, including a supervisor, were dismissed by the TSA for allegedly being caught drinking at Hooters whilst on duty.


2 JULY: BALTIMORE Pamela


Whitfield, 31, was charged after X-ray screeners found


a knife – with a 4 inch blade – concealed within a neon green comb in her carry-on baggage. The comb was inside a folder, placed along the spine. Whitfield was not intending to fly herself and was escorting her daughter to the gate at the time.


6 JULY: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A couple were caught trying to smuggle their baby into the UAE when X-ray screeners spotted the five-month-old hidden in their luggage; they did not have a visa for their baby.


26 JULY: MIAMI


Paulo Morales, a 47-year-old U.S. Customs and Border Control Protection Officer, pleaded guilty to groping three women who were in his custody at Miami International Airport.


30 JULY: CHINA


Pu, 18, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for telephoning Pudong International Airport on 27 April and claiming that he was an al Qaeda terrorist about to detonate a bomb on board an Air China flight to Chengdu. He had demanded that 1 million yuan (approx. US$155k) be transferred into his bank account within two hours. The whole threat had been part of a dare.


31 JULY: TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA A man was arrested for concealing a knife and a gun in his luggage.


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8 JUNE: TAIPEI Wu, 38, allegedly told flight attendants on the China Airlines flight he had boarded for Hong Kong that he had a bomb in his carry- on baggage.


15 JUNE: ANKARA A Turkish Airlines flight, en route from Kahramanmaras to Istanbul, diverted when the crew found the word ‘BOMMM’ written on the mirror in the toilets.


17 JUNE: NEW DELHI Harender Khanna is alleged to have telephoned in a bomb threat citing a Spicejet flight bound for Ahmedabad. Khanna was allegedly supposed to be on board but had missed his flight and had called in the threat.


26 JUNE: BERLIN A 19-year-old Serbian woman, about to fly from Berlin to Burgas, Bulgaria, with Bulgaria Air, claimed she had a bomb in her bag.


2 JULY: KUCHING Kuala Lumpur International Airport received a threat indicating that a flight which had departed KL and was about to land at Kuching International Airport had a bomb on board.


4 JULY: ALICANTE A 52-year-old man, already on board an Iberia flight preparing to depart for Madrid, claimed that his suitcase “may” contain explosives. The aircraft was evacuated and the man arrested.


5 JULY: STOCKHOLM


An intoxicated man, running late for his SAS flight to Malta, allegedly told security staff at Arlanda Airport that there was a bomb on board his flight in order to delay its departure.


12 JULY: WUHAN Yuan, 47, threatened to hijack his flight after it took off from Beijing for Wuhan in anger over a three-hour flight delay. He was arrested on arrival.


15 JULY: DHAKA, BANGLADESH An intoxicated passenger, Sultan Miah, threatened to blow up his Emirates flight during the flight from Dubai.


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