20 MARCH: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Brett Zorse, 50, was charged in relation to an incident on board a JetBlue fl ight from San Francisco to New York in April 2012. Zorse allegedly, whilst seated next to his own
12-year-old son, put his hand underneath the skirt of the female passenger sleeping in the seat next to him. She awoke to fi nd him massaging her thigh. When the woman demanded to know what he was doing, Zorse reportedly said, “It’s not like I molested you. It’s not like I stuck my fi nger in your p***y or grabbed your t**s. I wouldn’t mind a massage right now.” The woman later claimed that he had been chatting her up and that she had, thereafter, taken sleeping tablets; she did not fi le the complaint on board or at the time of disembarkation. Zorse claims that he believed the female passenger was fl irting with him. Zorse was charged with simple assault.
21 MARCH: BANGKOK, THAILAND Fourteen ‘Yellow Shirt’ People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) activists were formally charged in Thailand’s Criminal Court for allegedly invading and causing damage to Bangkok’s Don Meaung and Suvarnabhumi airports on 29 November 2008.
25 MARCH: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA John Paul Button, 38, was sentenced to a suspended six months in jail for his behaviour on a Jetstar flight from Adelaide to Sydney on 25 April 2012 on which he had kicked a toilet door and grabbed a female flight attendant.
27 MARCH: LONDON, UK Nezar Hindawi, the 57-year-old Jordanian jailed for 45 years for plotting to blow up an El Al Israel Airlines fl ight en route from London to Tel Aviv in 1986, was granted parole. The Parole Board decided that Hindawi was no longer a risk to the public and could be released after serving 26 years in prison, albeit he will remain in custody until he is deported.
14 FEBRUARY: SAN MARTIN, CALIFORNIA A vintage Chevrolet Corvette, two roll-away tool boxes and aviation equipment were stolen from two separate hangars at South County Airport in San Martin. The perpetrators had cut out a section of the cyclone perimeter fence and entered the hangars through an unlocked pedestrian hangar access door.
8 MARCH: KEY WEST, FLORIDA Thomas Knight, 57, allegedly broke into Key West Airport to steal a six pack from the First Call Beach Bar in the arrivals terminal.
18 FEBRUARY: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Gunmen drove two vehicles through the perimeter fence and stole approx. $50 million worth of diamonds from a Helvetic Airways aircraft that was being loaded in preparation for departure to Zurich. The robbers left the airport through the same hole in the fence around 11 minutes after they had entered the airside.
28 MARCH: JFK, NEW YORK Robert Guerrero, a champion boxer, was arrested after he declared that he was carrying an unloaded .40-calibre Smith and Wesson handgun, which is illegal in New York.
29 MARCH: MUMBAI, INDIA A 23-year-old Israeli man was arrested after a bullet was found in his carry-on baggage as he was about to board a fl ight to Nepal. The man normally carries a fi rearm in Israel and his family claims that a bullet must have simply fallen out into his bag before his trip.
SABOTAGE & ATTACKS
4 FEBRUARY: KARACHI, PAKISTAN Airport Police arrested Nauroze Baloch after he had attacked and injured a staff offi cer at the PIA reservation offi ce at the Jinnah Terminal when his fl ight from Karachi to Islamabad was delayed due to bad weather.
21 MARCH: TRIPOLI, LIBYA Seven members of the Tarhouna’s Al- Awfi a brigade, who seized control of Tripoli International Airport on 4 June 2012 in retaliation for the abduction of its commander, Abu-Alija Habshi, were found guilty of the attack and each was sentenced to two and a half years in jail.
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14 FEBRUARY: ROME, ITALY A 19-year-old man from the Cote d’Ivoire, who was set to be deported, poured petrol over himself and then set himself on fi re in a customs police offi ce at Terminal 3 of Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. He was hospitalised and survived the incident.
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13 MARCH: LAGOS, NIGERIA More than 10 armed robbers attacked foreign exchange dealers at Murtala Muhammad International Airport; some escaped with large quantities of cash. One robber was killed and four police offi cers were injured during a gunfi ght which lasted for approximately 30 minutes.
21 MARCH: TIMBUKTU, MALI A suicide bomber killed a Malian soldier and wounded six others when he drove his vehicle into a checkpoint.
28 MARCH: DAMASCUS, SYRIA Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels claimed to have fi red at, and hit, an Iranian cargo aircraft as it was attempting to land at Damascus International Airport. A picture was posted on the FSA’s website, yet the Syrian regime claim that nothing happened. The FSA claim the aircraft was carrying Iranian arms to support the Syrian government.
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