23/24 NOVEMBER: NOTRE-DAME-DES- LANDES, FRANCE
Police were forced to fi re teargas in order to try to disperse thousands
of protestors campaigning against a new airport being built at Notre-Dame-des- Landes, near Nantes. Many of the protestors were camping at the site. The protests were anything but peaceful with petrol bombs, bottles, stones and fi recrackers being thrown at police. The incident resulted in protestors, police offi cers and journalists requiring medical treatment.
JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS
5 OCTOBER: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Yongda Huang Harris, 28, was arrested in Los Angeles when he was found to be wearing a trench coach with a bulletproof vest and fl ame retardant trousers with knee pads underneath. He was also carrying a range of weapons and unusual oddments in his luggage, including a smoke grenade, knives, a hatchet, clubs, handcuffs, a biohazard suit, a respirator and body bags. It was his behaviour that attracted attention, so concern was expressed that Harris had managed to fl y to Los Angeles from Kansai, Japan, via Inchon, Korea, undetected.
24 OCTOBER: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Ahmed Ressam, 45, otherwise known as the ‘Millennium Bomber’ who failed in his plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Eve 1999, was sentenced to 37 years in prison.
30 OCTOBER: NEW DELHI, INDIA
Jitender Mohla was
sentenced to life imprisonment and fi ned Rs. 5000 for claiming to be armed with a gun and infected
25 NOVEMBER: FRENCH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
The driver of a Porsche Cayman drove up the runway at French Valley Airport, reaching speeds well over 100 mph, before launching the vehicle over the fence at the end of the runway and landing in the road outside the airfi eld. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the car ended up in a fi eld, where the driver escaped on foot. The fence was damaged.
28 NOVEMBER: TOKYO, JAPAN Workers demolished huts built on Narita Airport land in 1971 and occupied by anti- airport demonstrators.
28 NOVEMBER: MILWAUKEE A Delta fl ight from Milwaukee to Detroit was delayed after a passenger found a live shotgun shell in a seatback pocket.
28 NOVEMBER: ATLANTA, GEORGIA An airport worker is believed to have egged the bus carrying the New Orleans Saints when the team arrived in Atlanta for their match against the Atlanta Falcons.
11 OCTOBER: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Jonathan Cresswell was given a community payback order, requiring him to complete 100 hours of unpaid work, for having threatened to blow up Glasgow Airport after his friend had been arrested by police in November last year.
14 OCTOBER: HYOGO, JAPAN The case against a man who allegedly took upskirt photographs of a fl ight attendant, on board a Japan Airlines fl ight from Takamatsu to Tokyo, was thrown out after prosecutors failed to establish which Japanese prefecture the plane was fl ying over at the time.
17 OCTOBER: XIANGYANG, CHINA Xiong Yi, 29, appeared in court charged with telephoning in a bomb threat to Shenzhen Airport on 30 August. He allegedly wanted to stop a creditor from collecting his debt and so tried to prevent a Shenzhen Airlines departing for Xiangyang where Xiong Yi lives and was located.
21 OCTOBER: RISHON L’ZION, ISRAEL Eliezer Cohen, a former Knesset (Israeli parliament) member, was convicted of fondling an El Al fl ight attendant whilst on board a fl ight from New York to Tel Aviv in September 2006. Cohen
reportedly touched the fl ight attendant's breast while his wife was sleeping next to him.
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needles and threatening passengers and crew on an Indigo Airlines fl ight en route from Goa to Delhi in 2009. Claiming he had hijacked the fl ight and to be one the hijackers who had hijacked Indian Airlines fl ight IC-814 to Qandahar in 1999, Mohla had threatened to infect anybody if they tried to overpower him.
3 NOVEMBER: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON An Omni Air pilot was arrested after he allegedly climbed into a man's rental car at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, fought with the driver and then drove off in the vehicle. The pilot was fortunate that the driver did not fi re the handgun he was holding and only hit the pilot with it. The pilot was arrested soon after.
8 NOVEMBER: ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA Hayden Michael Angwin was fi ned $6,000 and ordered to pay $2720 to Virgin Airlines for having joked about a bomb being placed on a Virgin fl ight he was travelling on, from Rockhampton to the Gold Coast, in April.
9 NOVEMBER: TEXAS
A judge ruled that Clayton Osbon, the JetBlue Airways pilot who caused the diversion of a fl ight en route from New York to Las Vegas in March, can be freed. Osbon was originally charged with interference with a fl ight crew, but was later found to be not guilty by reason of insanity.
10 NOVEMBER: JFK, NEW YORK The First Officer of an El Al flight was arrested at JFK when he was found to be carrying a retractable baton in his carry- on baggage.
December 2012 Aviationsecurityinternational
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