THREATS
11 DECEMBER: KOCHI, INDIA Rajiv Pillai, 40, was arrested having made a telephone call saying that a bomb had been planted at Nedumbassery Airport. He was reported to be mentally unstable.
14 DECEMBER: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Eunice Ukaegbu, 50, telephoned the police and told them that her husband would be trying to blow up the Air France flight he was boarding in Newark. She was arrested and reportedly made the call as she did not want him to travel to Nigeria.
18 DECEMBER: PARIS, FRANCE A Pegasus Airlines aircraft was evacuated at Paris Orly Airport following an anonymous telephone threat made to France’s embassy in Ankara.
28 DECEMBER: TAIPEI, TAIWAN Just before a TransAsia Airways flight departed for Macau, the airline received an email stating that, "it would be best that the flight has an accident". The airline then received a second e-mail reading, "Sorry, that was a mistake". The e-mails were traced to a male passenger on the flight surnamed Liu, but it later transpired that it was his wife who had sent the e-mails because she was angry that he was going to be spending his birthday in Macau without her.
28 DECEMBER: NEWQUAY, UK A student implied he was carrying a bomb onto a flight to Gatwick resulting in the airport being closed. He was later fined.
4 JANUARY: TALLINN, ESTONIA Andres Saar, 54, telephoned the airport’s emergency number and claimed that a woman due to board a flight to Egypt was a threat. He was later sentenced to one month in prison.
5 JANUARY: MUMBAI, INDIA Ajmal Kasab
An anonymous caller made a hijack threat against a Jet Airways flight, saying that he was seeking to free Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. However, Kasab had been executed two
months earlier and, when told this, the caller then said he wanted the release of other Pakistani prisoners.
10 JANUARY: VILNIUS, LITHUANIA A hoax caller, later found to be intoxicated, told Police that there could be a bomb on board a flight from Vilnius to Moscow.
10 JANUARY: MIAMI, FLORIDA Oksana
Gerzon, 41, was arrested for allegedly making a hoax bomb threat after she
missed her Delta Airlines flight and was told that her baggage would be going ahead without her.
17 JANUARY: ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN The information office of JSC International Airport of Astana received a telephone threat indicating that a passenger would be carrying a bomb on board a flight from Astana to Istanbul. The caller was arrested two days later.
17 JANUARY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to escort an Alaska Airlines flight from Kona, Hawaii to SeaTac Airport after someone called the FBI’s Honolulu office and said that there was a hijacker on board the plane.
28 JANUARY: MUMBAI, INDIA Kabeer Jarumiya Hussain, 38, called the helpdesk at the international airport’s 1B terminus and said a bomb would explode at the airport between 1900 and 2200. He was later arrested. Hussain had allegedly intended to delay a flight to cause trouble for a friend.
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