HIJACKS 17 MARCH: QUEBEC, CANADA


1 FEBRUARY: PHOENIX, ARIZONA Bruce Kludt, 27, was arrested and accused of placing hidden cameras in the unisex employee restroom at Sky Harbor International Airport and recording images of his co-workers urinating.


4 FEBRUARY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA Legal proceedings commenced against Artem Bondarenko who allegedly assaulted police and airport staff whilst intoxicated at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport on 16 January.


A helicopter was hijacked at gunpoint by Mathieu Steven Marchisio, 21, and Yagé Beaudoin, 24, who ordered the pilot, Sébatien Foray, to fly towards Saint-Jérôme prison, near Montreal, to facilitate the escape of Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 36, and Danny Provencal, 33. The helicopter landed on the roof of the prison and the escapees grabbed ropes and cables dropped into the prison yard by their friends and held onto them as the aircraft flew away. The helicopter landed 40kms away in the car park of a Laurentians resort and spa from where they sped off in a Cadillac.They were caught a few hours later after Sûreté du Québec was able to track down the location of the Robinson R44 helicopter. The helicopter belonged to Passport Hélico, a heli-tour operator, and had been booked for an aerial tour of St-Jérôme, taking off from the company’s base at Mont-Tremblant.


4 FEBRUARY: EDMONTON, CANADA Justin Neil Frank, 36, was given a one- year suspended sentence, 25 hours of community service, a $4,000 penalty for the charge under the Aeronautics Act and $15,200 in restitution to the airline to cover the cost of the flight diversion he had caused in August 2012. Frank had been flying from London to Calgary, but the flight diverted to Edmonton due to his drunken, sexually abusive behaviour.


5 FEBRUARY: THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS Bulgaria provided Europol with the names of two people (carrying Australian and Canadian passports) it suspects of involvement in the bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a bus driver at Burgas Airport on 18 July 2012. The suspects are believed to be members of Hezbollah.


7 FEBRUARY: DENVER, COLORADO Marcus Covington, 33, was sentenced to the 172 days he had already served since his arrest for causing the diversion of a JetBlue flight to Denver in August. Covington had groped a pregnant woman on board the flight from New York to Los Angeles. Covington must also pay $4,197 in restitution to the airline.


8 FEBRUARY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA


A criminal case was launched against Sergei Kabalov, 54, for his alleged attempted hijacking of a Kogalymavia flight en route to


Hurghada, Egypt, on 11th January 2013. Kabalov is reported to have hit a flight attendant and a fellow passenger whilst intoxicated and then tried to break into the cockpit. Although he was restrained by crew and handed over to the authorities, Kabalov seemingly managed to negotiate his freedom with the police and promptly disappeared.


JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS


1 FEBRUARY: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN A man was jailed for a month for having told security staff at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport that there was a bomb on board a SAS flight bound for Malta in July 2012.


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5 FEBRUARY: TUCSON, ARIZONA Mary Purcell pleaded guilty to phoning in a false bomb threat to Tucson International Airport on 11 September 2011. Purcell was worried that her mother and brother were travelling on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to stop their Southwest Airlines flight departing.


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8 FEBRUARY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA A criminal case was launched against Nikolai Komissarov for his unruly behaviour on board a Utair Airlines flight to Kaliningrad in December 2012.


12 FEBRUARY: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Brian Harkness, 44, was ordered by Paisley Sheriff Court to carry out 220 hours of unpaid work for his disruptive behaviour on board a flight from Alicante to Glasgow in August 2012.


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