HIJACKINGS
11 JUNE: SEROV, RUSSIA An Antonov An-2, operated by Avi-Azov, was commandeered by a group of 12 party-goers and pilot Khatib Kashapov, all of whom were believed to be intoxicated. One of the group was a security guard from the Serov airstrip from where the aircraft was taken. The operator later lost its operating licence.
29 JUNE: XINJIANG
Six men attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight whilst en route from Hetian (aka Hotan) to Urumqi. Three of the men were seated at the front of the cabin and three at the rear; they tried to take control using weapons that they had carried on board in, and as part of, aluminium crutches that they had used to portray some of the group as being disabled at the security checkpoint. They were overpowered and tied up with belts before the plane returned to Hetian. Two of the hijackers later died in hospital.
11 JUNE: MONTAGUE, CALIFORNIA Vandals crashed a small plane at Montague Airport into another aircraft, causing an estimated $250,000 in damage. Two other planes were also vandalised and a nearby hangar was burgled.
24 JUNE: KUWAIT An armoured vehicle, collecting cash from banks and companies around the airport, was stolen by one of the drivers, Abdul Amir, whilst the other driver went into a telecommunications company to collect money. Amir is alleged to have abandoned the vehicle near the airport and escaped with KD 60,000 out of the KD 570,000 on board. He was eventually arrested, along with four other Sri Lankan expatriates alleged to have been involved.
25 JUNE: MEXICO CITY Three federal police officers were shot and killed when they tried to arrest drug trafficking suspects at Mexico City's international airport.
17 JULY: ST. GEORGE, UTAH Brian Hedglin, a 40-year-old SkyWest Airlines Captain, wanted on suspicion of murder, stole a SkyWest aircraft and crashed it into the airport terminal and into a dozen cars in a car park before killing himself on board. Hedglin was wanted in connection with the death of his 39-year- old girlfriend Christina Cornejo.
18 JULY: BOURGAS, BULGARIA A suicide bomber, who had waited in the airport’s arrival hall for Israeli passengers to arrive from Tel Aviv, then boarded their tour bus with them and detonated 3kg of TNT-based explosives contained in his backpack. Five Israeli tourists, the Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber were killed. 30 others were seriously injured.
1 JULY: KABUL
SABOTAGE & ATTACKS
4 JUNE: TRIPOLI Flights to Tripoli had to be diverted to Metiga after militiamen from the al-Awfea Brigade took over the airport having stormed it with heavy machine guns and armoured vehicles.
10 JUNE: ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA A Cessna 210 was stolen from Antioquia’s Los Cedros Airport by an armed group. The plane was registered in Guatemala and last seen on radar flying over the border into Panama.
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A Russian transport aircraft was damaged prior to its takeoff to Ulyanovsk when an explosive device exploded within a few metres from the aircraft.
15 JULY: AMSTERDAM Sewing needles were found in five different turkey sandwiches supplied to Delta Airlines flights by Gate Gourmet in Amsterdam. A passenger on a flight to Minneapolis was injured, whilst other incidents were reported on flights to Atlanta and Seattle.
18 JULY: KUALA LUMPUR Two women, from Costa Rica and Mexico, were caught on airport CCTV stealing a suitcase full of jewellery from a 53-year-old woman from Hong Kong. The woman was the Manager of a jewellery company and had just arrived in Malaysia for a jewellery exhibition in Kuala Lumpur; the stock was worth RM 2 million. Seven people were eventually arrested for being involved.
August 2012 Aviationsecurityinternational
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