26 MARCH: NUNAVUT, IQALUIT, CANADA An Air Transat fl ight, en route from Vancouver to the United Kingdom, diverted to Nunavut after a 39-year-old intoxicated man had to be restrained by fl ight attendants and other passengers.
28 MARCH: KRASNODAR, RUSSIA A 27-year-old intoxicated man had a domestic argument with his wife on board a fl ight from Istanbul to Krasnodar.
Eventually he hit the woman, an action which prompted members of FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk football team, who happened to be travelling on the fl ight, to intervene to protect her and restrain him. The man was later charged with hooliganism and fi ned 1000 Roubles (approx. $30).
29 MARCH: SHANGHAI, CHINA A female passenger slapped a Shanghai Airlines fl ight attendant across her face when the fl ight’s departure was delayed due to airport congestion. She was sentenced to fi ve days detention.
30 MARCH: HYDERABAD, INDIA An in-fl ight incident resulted in an assault on a city road. P. Shankar Ram alleges that his car was intercepted and he was assaulted by three people, one of whom he had sat next to on a fl ight from Kuala Lumpur to Hyderabad and who he had accused of talking on his mobile phone in-fl ight; the other two people were reported to be the man’s bodyguards. Following the assault, he lodged a complaint with the police… but so did the other man who then claimed that Ram had been intoxicated on board the fl ight and had misbehaved with his wife.
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20 JANUARY: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Wynand Mullins caused an in-fl ight scare on board a Qantas fl ight to Auckland because his T-shirt carried a slogan (“My name in Inigo Montoya. You killed my
father. Prepare to die.”) from the family fi lm ‘The Princess Bride’. The crew asked him to change his shirt following complaints from other passengers, but he was eventually allowed to continue wearing it because he did not have a change of clothing in his carry-on.
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5 FEBRUARY: LONDON, UK A Tarom pilot was prevented from operating the airline’s fl ight from London to Bucharest when he was suspected of being drunk. The fl ight was cancelled.
6 FEBRUARY: HAIFA, ISRAEL All plane owners were told to clear their planes from the parking area at Haifa Airport for security reasons. The order was given for unspecifi ed security reasons.
9 FEBRUARY: MALAGA, SPAIN A 12-year-old boy was found by police in Malaga Airport after he had fl own there on board a Jet Air fl ight from Brussels without a ticket or boarding card. The child had been declared missing by his parents two days earlier.
9 FEBRUARY: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Lucy Forck, a three-year-old girl suffering from spina bifi da, was so upset by being physically searched by
TSA screeners that she signed that she no longer wanted to go on the family trip to Disney World.
12 FEBRUARY: JFK, NEW YORK A fl ight to Los Angeles was delayed after an American Airlines employee, who was trying to be helpful, helped Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend Kanye West by-pass security checks. The celebrity couple then had to be screened.
15 FEBRUARY: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
Members of the Colorado College Ultimate Frisbee Team performed the ‘Harlem Shake’ on board a Frontier Airlines fl ight en route from Colorado Springs to San Diego. Video of the dance has since become a YouTube hit. The students claim they were given permission to do the dance by the crew, but the FAA is investigating the incident in response to some passengers’ claims the performance was far too wild to take place inside an aircraft cabin and took place whilst the seat belt signs were illuminated; Frontier Airlines deny the latter claim.
18 FEBRUARY: MADRID, SPAIN Iberia employees clashed with police offi cers at Barajas Airport during strike action over planned job cuts. Approximately 2,000 protesters gathered at Terminal 4, prompting police offi cers to respond with force; fi ve protesters were arrested.
20 FEBRUARY: KARACHI, PAKISTAN Flights were disrupted at Jinnah International Airport as a result of civil unrest in response to a bombing in Quetta on 16 February. Roads to the airport were blocked, preventing passengers from reaching the terminal buildings.
26 FEBRUARY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA Reports emerge that pornographic videos have been loaded onto the internet which demonstrate just what can go on inside an airport without being noticed by passengers and staff. Seven XXX videos had been identifi ed in which ‘actors’ perform a wide range of sexual acts at Sky Harbor Airport.
2 MARCH: DELHI, INDIA
14 FEBRUARY: BELGRADE, SERBIA Reports emerge about a plan to sabotage Prime Minister Ivica Dačić’s aircraft.
14 FEBRUARY: NANCHANG, CHINA A naked man under the infl uence of drugs was found near the runway of the Nanchang Changbei International Airport. He had scaled the perimeter fence.
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Captain Amar Sabharwal was suspended for carrying an unauthorised person in the cockpit of the Air India fl ight he was fl ying from Delhi to Kolkata, and for misbehaving with an air hostess. The Captain allegedly allowed a Customs offi cer, who had boarded the fl ight with a jump seat ticket, to fl y in the cockpit. The air hostess complained, prompting the Captain to make an indecent comment; she fi led a complaint when the aircraft returned to Delhi.
April 2013 Aviationsecurityinternational
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