30 APRIL: MOSCOW, RUSSIA An intoxicated man was arrested after he had driven his Nissan Pathfinder SUV through a security checkpoint and onto the airfield at Sheremetyevo Airport.


3 MAY: WINCHESTER, UK Michael Fay, 59, was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison for fraud. Fay had worked fraudulently as a commercial airline pilot, using a fake pilot’s licence, flying passengers to/from Gatwick


Airport without a proper licence or medical documentation on eight occasions.


3 MAY: HARLINGEN, TEXAS Yasser Yahia Hassan, a 42-year-old Immigration & Customs Enforcement officer, was arrested for being intoxicated at Valley International Airport. Hassan was allegedly armed and wanted to hurt himself.


7 & 8 MAY: BELGIUM, FRANCE & SWITZERLAND


Over the course of two days, 31 people were arrested in connection with the $50m diamond


heist at Brussels airport in February.


9 MAY: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Kerry Lee Bobo, 53, was arrested when a .45-calibre Sig Sauer wrapped in aluminium foil, and a taser, were found in his checked luggage. Bobo was planning to fly on KLM to Amsterdam and, from there, continue to Nairobi.


11 MAY: DETROIT, MICHIGAN Hussain Al Khawahir was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents claimed that he had lied as to why he was trying to board a flight with a pressure cooker.


12 MAY: CANADA Former Palestinian hijacker Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, 70, was deported to Lebanon.


24 MAY: STANSTED, UK A Pakistan International Airlines flight aborted landing at Manchester and diverted to London Stansted Airport due to the behaviour of two men on board who had allegedly endangered the safety of the aircraft. The men were arrested by Essex Police.


30 MAY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Reports emerge that Monica Amestoy, now 18, had filed a lawsuit against United Airlines for allowing a male passenger to masturbate next to her on board a flight from New York to Los Angeles last October. Amestoy claims that she complained to flight attendants numerous times, but that they had failed to take action. The man in question has reportedly since been prosecuted and convicted.


INCIDENTS


29 MARCH: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Three Chinese women in their 20s and 30s managed to stowaway on an Asiana Airlines flight, hiding near the crew’s rest area at the back of the aircraft for the duration of their trip from Seoul. They were caught trying to pass through customs in Los Angeles.


2 APRIL: RIO LINDA, CALIFORNIA A naked man was detained at the airport, and taken to a local hospital, after he was found wandering around the premises.


5 APRIL: PAGADIAN CITY, PHILIPPINES Heirs of Datu Lucas Taug Boto camped out and barricaded the runway of Pagadian National Airport to demand compensation for their land, resulting in the cancellation and diversion of Cebu Pacific and PAL Express flights from Manila and Cebu.


8 APRIL: PARIS, FRANCE


The body of a man, aged about 30, was found in the landing gear of a CAMAIRCO aircraft which had just landed from Douala, Cameroon.


11 APRIL: LOCATION UNKNOWN A photograph of an ultra-orthodox Jewish passenger went viral after it was posted on a social networking website. The passenger had covered himself in a plastic bag during a flight because he was a Cohen (descendant of the priestly tribe) and was therefore forbidden to fly over cemeteries.


A suspicious white powder was found on a Toll Air freight plane at Hobart Airport. The substance caused so much concern that six people were taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital for decontamination by the specialist hazardous materials unit of the Tasmanian Fire Service. Reports indicate that the incident lasted five hours and that up to 15 emergency vehicles from Ambulance Tasmania, Tasmania Police forensics, the Australian Federal Police, the Tasmanian Fire Service and airport emergency services attended the scene. The Mercury later reported that the powder was non-toxic and that a woman, Susan Allford, was convinced that the powder had escaped from a parcel containing Panache talcum powder sent to her by her daughter. On receiving the package, she had opened it and powder spilled out; a lid was missing from one of the tins.


15 APRIL: NANTES, FRANCE Three police officers and one protester were injured in clashes at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the controversial site of a planned airport near Nantes.


11 APRIL: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK It was announced that the Skytrax international survey of passenger satisfaction rated Copenhagen Airport as having the world's best and most friendly security process.


12 APRIL: LONDON, UK


Jose Matada, 30, was named as being the man who fell out of the wheel well of an aircraft as it approached Heathrow on 9 September last year. He was originally from Mozambique, but was almost certainly on a flight


from Angola. An inquest reported that he was probably still alive as he fell from the aircraft, albeit unconscious, and that he actually died on impact in a residential street in East Sheen.


13 MAY: HOBART, TASMANIA


24 MAY: SALT LAKE CITY A man was arrested when a loaded Jennings .22 calibre pistol was found hidden in his prosthetic leg.


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