24 OCTOBER: BRAZIL/JAPAN/ AUSTRALIA/RUSSIA Now flights are being used to circumvent the laws on the ground! A Brazilian student, Catarina Migliorini, aged 20, hit the headlines for having auctioned off her virginity for $780,000 to a man named as Natsu in Japan. The auction was organised by an Australian company, who were also making a documentary film entitled Virgins Wanted. Migliorini and Natsu are to perform the act on a flight from the US to Australia in order, so reports allege, to circumvent prostitution laws. A Russian boy, Alexander Stepanov, also sold his virginity in the Virgins Wanted auction, but received an offer of only $2600 from a Kasandra Darlinghurst in Australia.
27 or 28 OCTOBER: MIAMI, FLORIDA Felipe Restrepo Betancur alleges that he was assaulted by his employer, the Mexican singer Paulina Rubio, at Miami Airport when he bought her an Economy Class seat on a flight to Mexico as all Business Class seats had been sold. His employment ended on 29 October. Rubio denies the assault.
10 NOVEMBER: OKLAHOMA CITY Wayne Coyne, front man for The Flaming Lips, caused multiple delays at Oklahoma City airport when he packed a ‘dead’ grenade in his luggage.
13 NOVEMBER: MANUS ISLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA The island’s airport, Momote, was closed when protesting local landowners placed safety cones and baggage trolleys on the runway during the night. The protest was designed to force the government to award them local construction contracts associated with the development of an Australian off- shore detention centre on the island.
28 OCTOBER: PARIS, FRANCE Striking Air France workers, objecting to proposed job cuts, clashed with police inside Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
26 OCTOBER: LAGOS, NIGERIA The body of a young Nigerian man was found in the wheel well of an Arik Air jet after it returned from New York. The crushed body may well have been there for a number of days.
26 OCTOBER: NEW YORK, USA AVSEC World 2012 was postponed by IATA three days before the annual conference was due to convene in New York. The postponement was due to Hurricane Sandy. The following (edited) message was sent to all speakers, delegates and exhibitors, some of whom had already arrived in New York: “Due to Hurricane Sandy and impending severe weather that has the potential to inflict enormous and unprecedented damage on the East Coast, and specifically the New York metropolitan region, the decision has been made to postpone AVSEC World 2012 and associated meetings and events. This decision was not made lightly but in the interest of the safety and security of our attendees.” The event has since been rescheduled for 5-7 March 2013.
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29 OCTOBER: HANOI, VIETNAM Two Chinese men were observed to be opening up other passengers’ carry-on baggage on a Vietnam Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi. When the flight reached Hanoi, the crew told the authorities and the passengers were asked to remain in the aircraft to check if they had had anything stolen.
30 OCTOBER: SENDAI, JAPAN Construction workers found a World War II bomb near Sendai airport’s runway.
8 NOVEMBER: DULLES, WASHINGTON DC A United Airlines flight, en route from Denver to Dulles, was escorted in to land by fighter jets when a passenger began praying in the aisle and refused to be seated for landing.
10 NOVEMBER: AUSTRALIA
Reports emerge that Jesy Nelson, of the band Little Mix, had been detained at airport security when her clutch bag,
which is covered in spikes, was mistaken for a set of knuckle dusters.
13 NOVEMBER: LAGOS, NIGERIA A poorly dressed man walked towards an Arik Air aircraft that was preparing to depart for Uyo when it was already at the holding point, waiting for another aircraft to land before its own departure. The man knocked on the aircraft fuselage and asked for the door to be opened. The pilots quickly turned off the engines fearing that the man would be sucked in. It is thought that the mentally disturbed man had climbed the perimeter fence to gain airside access.
16 NOVEMBER: NICARAGUA Demonstrators protesting against the increasing cost of electricity took over a regional airport approx. 400 miles northeast of Managua.
19 NOVEMBER: ISTANBUL, TURKEY Around 1,000 Galatasary football fans waited to ‘greet’ the Manchester United team in the airport arrivals hall ahead of their Champion League fixture. Police had to disperse the crowd with teargas.
21 NOVEMBER: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Protesting workers from Los Angeles Airport caused many passengers to be late for their flights after they blocked roads surrounding the airport.
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