19 MARCH: HOKKAIDO, JAPAN An intoxicated 51-year-old male passenger, due to take an ANA flight to Tokyo, passed through a security checkpoint and then forced open a closed automatic door to the ramp. Initially he was escorted back into the building to await his bus to the aircraft, but when he then wandered off to the main departure lounge, authorities were forced to re- screen approx. 1,250 passengers who, by then, could have had contact with him.


24 MARCH: CHAMBÉRY, FRANCE A security scare, in which abandoned luggage was believed to contain a bomb, resulted in the passengers inside the terminal being evacuated to the tarmac and passengers on arriving flights not being permitted to disembark.


25 MARCH: ZURICH, SWITZERLAND British socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson revealed, via Twitter, that she had missed an intended flight to London after a pair of Karl Lagerfeld shoes, with heels shaped like guns, had been identified in her luggage by X-ray operators at Zurich Airport.


25 MARCH: BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC


As the security situation in the Central African Republic deteriorated following the Seleka rebel coalition taking over Bangui the day before, French troops protecting Bangui M'Poko International Airport accidentally killed two Indian men – Krishnayya Mogaveera and Karna Bahadur - who were in a vehicle that did not stop for inspection at the airport’s entrance. The troops, who were under fire themselves from an unknown location, fired what were intended to be merely warning shots at three approaching vehicles yet which caused the fatalities.


27 MARCH: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL


A loaded gun was found in the luggage of a man who was about to board a flight to Turkey.


30 MARCH: PARIS, FRANCE Javier Lopez Pena, the 54-year-old leader of ETA, died in Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris as a result of a stroke. Pena is believed to be responsible for the bombing of a car park at Barajas Airport in Madrid in 2006 and had been in jail in France since 2008.


21 FEBRUARY: HEFEI, CHINA


A domestic flight which had just departed Hefei for Shenzhen landed back at Hefei following the receipt of a bomb threat.


25 FEBRUARY: MAGADAN, RUSSIA Magadan Airport was temporarily closed after an anonymous caller indicated that a bomb had been planted at the airport.


25 FEBRUARY: NANCHANG, CHINA A Shenzen airlines flight which had departed Hefei for Shenzhen had to divert to Nanchang after a man telephoned Hefei Airport to say that there was a bomb on board the flight. It later emerged that the caller, later named as Chen, issued the threat in order to try and stop his girlfriend from leaving him after they had had an argument.


26 FEBRUARY: NEW DELHI, INDIA A passenger who was running late for his IndiGo flight to Patna telephoned in a bomb threat to the Police. He was later arrested.


1 MARCH: EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA A 27-year-old woman was arrested for making a joke bomb threat during a bag inspection at East London Airport.


5 MARCH: LONDON GATWICK, UK A woman on board a Ryanair aircraft preparing to depart for Dublin walked towards the front of the cabin and told the crew there was a bomb hidden on board. The flight was evacuated and the woman was arrested.


31 MARCH: ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Police officers at Borg El Arab International Airport, demanding higher salaries and better working conditions, staged a sit-in on the runway resulting in the airport’s closure for six hours.


THREATS


1 FEBRUARY: MUMBAI, INDIA IndiGo Airlines received a bomb threat citing its flight preparing to depart for Dubai.


8 FEBRUARY: HEFEI, CHINA A Shandong Airlines flight en route from Guangzhou to Jinan diverted to Hefei due to a threat being issued against the flight.


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17 MARCH: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Eran Hess, a 44-year-old Israeli man, was arrested for making a bomb threat against a United Airlines flight he was supposed


to be boarding to Miami. The man had become angry when told that there were no more seats on board his connecting flight to Miami, though his checked bag had been loaded onto the plane, and so told gate staff that there was a bomb in the bag.


17 MARCH: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Thomas Foley III, 35, was charged with creating a false alarm when he claimed he had a bomb in his shoe.


23 MARCH: SKOPJE, MACEDONIA An unknown man telephoned Alexander the Great Airport claiming that bombs had been placed at both Skopje and Ohrid airports.


April 2013 Aviationsecurityinternational


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