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MH370:
LEAD EDITORIAL
suicidal pilot, parajacker or, perhaps, stowaway?
by Philip Baum
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n 30th July, Dr Kok Soo Chon, the investigator in charge parachuted from the aircraft leaving it to continue its flight until
of the Malaysian flight MH370 safety investigation, it ran out of fuel? It is possible that Captain Shah, or indeed
stood before the world’s media and declared that “there another member of the crew, could still be alive enjoying a new
was no record of malfunction or defect in the aircraft that could life under an assumed identity having been picked up from the
have contributed to the disappearance.” ocean by an accomplice. Yes, it’s far-fetched, and a B-777 is not
The statement, made on behalf of the Malaysian government in as easy to bail out of as a B-727 (à la Cooper), and he would
the aftermath of the cessation of all search activities, was part of the certainly have had to descend to a low altitude to avoid freezing
presentation of the latest report into the incident, which is regarded to death during his fall. Still, a possibility all the same.
as one of the aviation industry’s greatest mysteries of all time. Yet the ‘insider threat’ need not be restricted to the crew on
The whereabouts of the wreckage are unknown, as are the board. The report states that, “we cannot exclude the possibility
reasons why MH370 never reached Beijing as planned on 8 March of unlawful interference by a third party." What if that entity were
2014. There has been much speculation over the intervening to have been on board, yet not on the manifest? We know that
years, some of which has been wild in nature; many remain there has been a detailed analysis into the background of all
convinced that, despite fragments showing up on east African passengers and crew, but we don’t know for certain whether there
shores, the aircraft is hidden away by either the Russians in were others on board.
Kazakhstan or the Americans in Diego Garcia and that all the As Alexandra James wrote in this journal (in her article on
passengers and crew are going to emerge unscathed! stowaways in April), “123 stowaway attempts have been reported
The aircraft’s initial movements indicate, as the report states, the internationally on 107 different flights.” And those are only the
likelihood is that "such manoeuvres are due to the systems being reported incidents; who knows how many others have reached
manipulated”, or, in other words, as a result of a criminal act. their destinations undetected or have fallen from aircraft without
There remain a multitude of different options in that space: anybody ever having known they were there? Most of these
hijacking of the aircraft by a passenger or crewmember, a cyber stowaways have, after all, hidden in wheel wells of aircraft.
attack whereby some external, ground-based individual or entity Stowaways could, however, also be airport-based employees, or
managed to manipulate the controls, or, as is still the most likely other persons who have gained access to restricted areas of the
scenario as far as I am concerned, pilot suicide. airport, who have concealed themselves on board. In the case of
Whilst the report indicates that there is no evidence that the B-777 – and I do not think this is in any way far-fetched – in
Captain Zaharia Ahmed Shah did indeed hijack his own aircraft and the avionics bay perhaps?
concluded that he had “no conflict issues with friends or family and This scenario is one I mooted as a possibility a few days after
had shown no signs of social isolation, self-neglect, no abuse of the loss of MH370. Aircraft mechanics access the bay, yet it is an
alcohol or drugs, no change of habit or interest, no stress or anxiety area of the aircraft that is rarely the subject of a pre-flight search
was detected in his audio recordings and no signs of significant (and, as this is a possible scenario highlighting a weakness in the
behavioural changes as observed in the CCTV footage”, there is system, something which should be addressed). From that bay,
little doubt that the nature of his activities on his home-based flight one has complete access to all the aircraft controls, including the
simulator, and his YouTube presentations on DIY air-conditioning communication systems. From that bay, one could depressurise
system repair, were unusual. And, furthermore, the report states the aircraft and kill all souls on board before taking control of the
that “the turn was made indeed under a manual, not autopilot”, so aircraft and either piloting it to its demise in the depths of the
somebody must have been at the controls. As Geoff Askew writes Indian Ocean or, as aforementioned, parachuting from it at low
in his article (on airline alliances) in this issue, there can be “no altitude. Then again, why do so?
more tragic example of a possible ‘insider threat’ than the possible An airport or airline employee with mental health issues
hijacking of Malaysian flight MH370 by its own captain”. simply showing it could be done? Or a terrorist group? In the
However, this still begs the question why, if he were suicidal, case of the latter, it is of course also a possibility that a person
Captain Shah didn’t simply crash the aircraft. Why would he have or persons could have concealed themselves in the electronics
gone to the extent of ensuring that the wreckage would not be and engineering bay, cut all aircraft communications and then,
discovered for a lengthy period of time, if ever? To ensure that his perhaps armed, attempted to hijack the aircraft. Perhaps, rather
family are beneficiaries of his life insurance policies and that he be than being the villain of the piece, Captain Shah’s final act was a
considered as much a victim as all other souls on board? Perhaps. heroic one trying to save the aircraft?
Or perhaps he was the hijacker, yet not suicidal? Could Until the wreckage is located and a forensic examination of the
he have faked his own demise by piloting the aircraft to a bodies of those on board is performed, I’m afraid it all continues
remote region of the Indian Ocean and then, DB Cooper style, to be speculation…
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HIJACKS 14 JUNE: MENDI, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3 JULY: DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
Around 200 rioters set fire to an An unidentified 24-year-old man stabbed
empty Niugini plane and hurled weapons an airport security worker in the head with
1 JULY: RÉAU, FRANCE at patrolling police officers. The mob was a knife. The attacker, who was said to have
A helicopter piloted by a flying instructor protesting the election of a provincial psychological issues, was pursued by police
was hijacked by three unidentified gunmen governor and the court's failure to challenge and quickly arrested. The employee required
and used to break infamous gangster, the decision, despite alleged evidence of surgery but remained in a stable condition.
Rédoine Faïd, from a French prison. After a election tampering.
dramatic escape, the helicopter was found 7 JULY: URUZGAN, AFGHANISTAN
abandoned and partially burned out in a Cpl. Joseph Maciel, a US soldier, was shot and
field near Charles de Gaulle airport. The killed by an Afghan soldier deployed to work
pilot was released unharmed. alongside Maciel's unit at Uruzgan Airport.
12 JULY: AUSTRALIA
It was reported that the computer systems of
Aviation ID, a company that produces aviation
security ID cards, was the subject of an attack
by hackers. Hundreds of aviation workers who
had applied for new ID cards were contacted
22 JUNE: KENYAM, INDONESIA by the company to advise them that their
A Dimonim Air plane carrying 17 passengers application information may have been stolen.
SABOTAGE from Timika was shot at as it landed at
& ATTACKS Kenyam. Co-pilot Irena Nur Fadila, 25, was 18 JULY: HOBART, TASMANIA
injured by shrapnel. A flight landing at Hobart International was
24 MAY: MASHHAD, IRAN targeted by a laser pointer.
Hackers calling themselves 'Tapandegan 22 JUNE: TOLEDO, COLOMBIA
(Palpitaters)' penetrated the computer An MI-17 helicopter owned by Vertical 22 JULY: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
system at Mashhad and post anti-military de Aviación was destroyed in an alleged 14 people were killed and at least 60
messages on passenger information screens terrorist attack while it was on the ground wounded after a suicide bomber detonated
throughout the terminal. at a heliport near Valle de Toledo. The explosives outside Kabul International where
helicopter had been carrying materials for crowds had gathered to greet Vice President
6 JUNE: TABRIZ, IRAN ISA Intercolombia who were constructing Abdul Ashid Dostum, who had been in exile
'Tapandegan (Palpitaters)' hacked into power towers. The area is known to be since May 2017.
the internal computer systems at Tabriz occupied by a group known as Clan del Golfo
and posted messages on the passenger and also residual members of Revolutionary
information screens in support of protesting Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). No-one is
truckers calling for higher freight rates. reported to have been injured in the attack.
24 JULY: MOPTI, MALI
Ambodedjo Airport was hit by two shells
ahead of presidential elections on 29 July.
No casualties were reported and nobody
claimed responsibility for the attack.
11 JUNE: MAZÁNGARO, PERU 24 JULY: POTSDAM, GERMANY
A Peruvian military helicopter was 25 JUNE: KENYAM, INDONESIA A police helicopter pilot abandoned a search
targeted and seriously damaged mid- Three passengers due to be deployed as for a missing person after his cockpit was
flight by leftist rebel 'narco-terrorists' guards at a local election were killed and a targeted twice by a laser beam, affecting his
using low-calibre anti-aircraft artillery. pilot injured after Papua separatists shot at a eyesight and causing him to seek medical
The helicopter was assisting the Nueva Trigana aircraft just after it arrived at Kenyam attention.
Libertad military base, which was under from Wamena, Indonesia.
siege. Six soldiers were wounded. 28 JULY: IMPHAL, INDIA
1 JULY: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA An IED was
12 JUNE: TIMBUKTU, MALI A military based located at Aden Adde discovered by a
A UN and military airbase at Timbuktu International was targeted by al-Shabab roadside near Imphal
Airport was targeted by a militant mortar militants, who fired around 10 mortar rounds International. It was
attack. No casualties or significant damage at the facility. Five were killed in the attack safely dismantled by
were reported. and 10 others wounded. the bomb squad.
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30 JULY: BARAWE, SOMALIA 15 JUNE: BOISE, IDAHO 27 JUNE: ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
It was reported that one person died after Al Donald Jackson, 67, was found by TSA An Australian
Shabab launched a mortar attack on Barawe agents to have hidden a 7-inch fixed-blade bomb squad was
Airport shortly after a military helicopter knife and a stash of marijuana in the soles of called to assess a
landed there. his shoes. He was arrested and charged with bag abandoned in
aircraft hijacking, although Jackson claimed the women's
he had no intention of hurting anyone. toilets in the
INCIDENTS terminal of Adelaide Airport. Inside the bag,
21 JUNE: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA they found a healthy male dwarf rabbit
31 MAY: RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA An El Al wearing a red harness.
The US Army purchased a Boeing 777 from passenger arriving at
Saudi Arabian Airlines for USD $1.5 million OR Tambo was 27 JUNE: FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
(c. £1,100,000) in order to carry out explosive recorded ranting at An unnamed
vulnerability tests on it. fellow passengers as flight attendant
they waited to collect allegedly
4 JUNE: OAXACA, MEXICO their luggage. The ordered the
Teachers of the Coordinadora Nacional de man can be heard removal of five
Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) set up yelling that "Jewish passengers,
roadblocks on Xoxocotlán International access people are wicked" and urging passengers including a
routes in protest of education reforms. to tell their government to change. child, from a Delta flight to Atlanta (operated
by SkyWest) over a dispute with a passenger,
6 JUNE: CAIRO, EGYPT 24 JUNE: MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY Robyn Rodgers, who had requested the
Zeresenay Ermias Testfatsion, 34, an Eritrean James flight attendant stop standing over her while
national, committed suicide in a holding cell Dahlen Jr., 51, she switched her mobile phone to flight
at Cairo International after being denied a pilot for mode. Three other passengers came to
asylum in the US. Paramount Air Rodger's defence after the flight attendant
Services and allegedly became overly aggressive. Delta
8 JUNE: SINGAPORE step-son of refused to pay for accommodation for the
A Hong Kong man the owner of passengers, who are reportedly considering
known as 'Howard X', a the company, suing the airline. Video footage of the
Kim Jong-un impersonator, took a Piper PA12 out and was seen flying incident, which Rodgers claims was racially
claimed he was detained dangerously low over homes and boats motivated, was released online.
upon arrival at Changi before landing on Cape May. After landing,
Airport ahead of talks Dahlen attempted to take off again but 28 JUNE: UNITED STATES
between Donald Trump failed and ended up abandoning the aircraft Former Guyanese member
and the real Kim Jong-un. Howard X had and running away. He was eventually of parliament, Abdul Kadir,
intended to take the opportunity to promote arrested and charged with criminal trespass. who was sentenced to life
his lookalike business. He was allegedly held imprisonment in 2010 for
and questioned for an hour before being 24 JUNE: BENGALURU, INDIA plotting to blow up gas
released on the condition he did not go near An Air India co-pilot due to fly to Trivandrum pipelines at JFK, died in
the venue of the talks or the leaders' hotels. was grounded after failing her pre-flight prison aged 66. The cause
breathalyser test. of his death is unknown, but
9 JUNE: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL he was reported to have fallen ill on the
Operations at Santos Dumont were halted 26 JUNE: SCOTLAND morning of the day he died. Kadir, who
for 15 minutes due to a shoot-out between Mobile served as Mayor of Linden in Guyana,
police and armed drug traffickers nearby. footage went maintained his innocence, claiming he had
viral of a Scottish been set up.
9 JUNE: LONDON, ENGLAND father shouting
Around 35 demonstrators launched at travellers as 28 JUNE: BEIRUT, LEBANON
a hunger-strike outside the Labour Party they 'dry A brawl broke out between several people at
offices to protest the expansion of Heathrow. humped' on the Rafik Hariri International, two of whom were
floor of an airport lounge while his 15-year-old holding toddlers. It is unclear what sparked
daughter sat on a seat next to them. the fight, but it was quickly broken up by
security officials. A video of the incident was
26 JUNE: NEW YORK, NEW YORK released online.
A JetBlue
flight bound for 29 JUNE: INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA
Los Angeles The South Korean national football team
11 JUNE: CRETE, GREECE experienced were pelted with eggs by angry football
It was reported that, issues with its fans upon their return to Incheon Airport
on 10 May, Sahar Issawi and radio from Russia after being knocked out of
her husband, Firas Asali, were equipment as it the World Cup.
asked for their marriage waited to take
licence and strip searched by off from JFK, 30 JUNE: UNITED STATES
Israeli agents at Heraklion prior to boarding an resulting in a hijack alert accidentally being New TSA rules were implemented
Israir flight home to Israel. They claimed were sent to traffic control and SWAT officers requiring quantities of powders over 350ml
also made to hand over their mobile phones and boarding the aircraft, demanding being carried in hand luggage on direct
later found that footage they had recorded of the passengers put their phones away and put flights to the United States to be screened
security searches had been erased. their hands up. for explosives.
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1 JULY: LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND 6 JULY: DELHI, INDIA 13 JULY: GIRVAN, SCOTLAND
Musician Steve van Zandt posted a tweet A member of Indian parliament, Chirag A 55-year-old
criticising security's customer service at Paswan, claimed to ground staff at Delhi that Greenpeace
Liverpool and calling for Yoko Ono to remove a Go Air flight attendant had 'misbehaved' protestor breached
John Lennon's name from the airport. towards him during a flight from Patna. The air exclusion
crew apologised and an inquiry was launched. regulations as he
1 JULY: ZAKYNTHOS, GREECE paraglided over
Passengers had fits and lost consciousness 7 JULY: AHMEDABAD, INDIA Donald Trump's golf
due to heat after their Thomas Cook flight to A 32-year-old woman attempted to commit course in Scotland
Stansted waited on the tarmac at Zakynthos suicide by taking sleeping pills at Ahmedabad during the president's visit to the property.
for three hours with no air conditioning, food Airport. She was found in the arrivals hall in a The paraglider was carrying a sign that read
or drink. Temperatures allegedly reached 48 semi-conscious state having travelled on a Jet 'TRUMP: WELL BELOW PAR #resist'.
degrees at the rear of the cabin. The flight Airways flight from Dhaka via Delhi. A suicide Greenpeace claimed they informed Police
was eventually cancelled, and the airline note found on the woman blamed her actions Scotland and Air Traffic Control at nearby
apologised and admitted fault. on a man she had been living with and who Prestwick Airport prior to the stunt.
she claimed had raped her. The passenger
received swift medical attention before being 14 JULY: PALMA, SPAIN
questioned by police. Ciutat
(‘City for the
9 JULY: VIENNA, AUSTRIA Residents’)
A 24-year-old American woman was charged demonstrators
after bringing an unexploded WWII shell she gathered at
had found while walking in the mountains Palma Airport
to the airport in her luggage. Parts of the to protest the large number of tourists
2 JULY: TBILISI, GEORGIA terminal were evacuated to assist the bomb visiting Mallorca every year.
A Russian national allegedly spilled squad in the safe removal of the item.
an unidentified toxic liquid at Tbilisi 17 JULY: MAR DEL PLATA, ARGENTINA
International, causing eight individuals to be 9 JULY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Astor
hospitalised with dizziness, vomiting, rashes New York Giants NFL player A.J. Francis Piazzolla Airport
and eye irritation. accused the TSA over Twitter of opening his was evacuated and
mother's ashes during an inspection of hold several flights
2 JULY: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA luggage and not replacing the lid correctly, delayed after a
The 56-year-old CEO of inflight meal causing her remains to spill over his clothes. marijuana grinder
supplier, Sharp DO & CO, committed suicide TSA initially apologised for the incident but the in the shape of a hand grenade was
after gaining airline Asiana as a client. The following day, after analysing video footage of discovered in the terminal.
small firm found they were unable to fulfil the search, determined that Francis' bag had
Asiana's orders in time leading to flight alarmed, that the container was unmarked, 19 JULY: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
delays and flights taking off with no meals. wrapped in tin foil and loosely packed, and A European tourist allegedly stripped
that the screener could not have known that naked and wandered through Arrivals at
3 JULY: KEFLAVÍK, ICELAND they were handling human remains. Atatürk Airport. In photos taken during the
Richard Spencer, a prominent US white incident, an airport security employee can be
supremacist, was barred from entering seen trying to cover the woman with his jacket.
Europe and briefly detained in Iceland due
to a Polish dictate that prevents Spencer
from entering the Schengen area for five
years. Spencer was travelling from Baltimore
to speak at a conference in Sweden but 10 JULY: DALIAN, CHINA
returned to the US after being stopped in An Air China co-pilot who was smoking in
Keflavik. the cockpit caused a flight from Hong Kong
to Dalian to suddenly drop 6,000m after he
3 JULY: TEXAS accidentally switched off the air conditioning
A woman known only as 'Helen' was stalked system in an attempt to prevent the vapour
and harassed online after fellow passengers from his e-cigarette from circulating into the 19 JULY: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
secretly filmed, photographed and live- passenger cabin. The flight deck crew was Alyjah Carter, 20, dropped her boyfriend off
tweeted her flirting with her seat-mate, immediately dismissed and an investigation at work at McCarran International before
Euan Holden, during a flight from New York was launched, which could lead to the pilots' attempting to run him over with her car,
to Texas. The story quickly went viral and licences being revoked. resulting in him plummeting 30 feet from an
the couple responsible for filming the pair entry ramp and fracturing his pelvis. Carter
appeared on national TV, along with Holden. 13 JULY: NAJAF, IRAQ then drove off at high speed. She was arrested
Demonstrators gathered and held on $50,000 bail (c. £39,200).
3 JULY: VANCOUVER, CANADA at Najaf Airport as part of
YouTube poster, BrodieTV, nationwide action to protest 20 JULY: LAGOS, NIGERIA
19, released a number of the lack of services such as Inspector Christian Offor, Inspector Kingsley
helium balloons tied to a sex water and electricity being Umeji, Sergeant David Eguavoen and
doll into the air over provided by the government, Sergeant Paul Ebo were allegedly involved
Ambleside Beach, just an and rising levels of unemployment and in a shooting at an airport tollgate, which
hour's drive from Vancouver corruption in the country. The airport resulted in the injury of Tunde Adeparusi.
International. The stunt suspended operations when hundreds of The four police officers were arrested and an
disrupted several flight paths. protestors took over the terminal and tarmac. investigation was launched.
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22 JULY: JAKARTA, INDONESIA UNRULY 5 JUNE: MAHON, MENORCA
A police officer, Fajar Firmansyah, accidentally PASSENGERS A passenger became drunk and unruly during
fired his gun inside the terminal at Soekarno- an easyJet flight from Bristol to Mahon. The
Hatta International, wounding Ikhwanul Hakim 1 JUNE: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES unidentified man had brought his own alcohol
Siregar, a check-in agent on duty at the time. A 27-year-old Emirati pilot was travelling on board. The incident led to easyJet calling
with Emirates, from Madrid to Dubai, for a ban on duty-free alcohol on flights.
22 JULY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON as a passenger when he became drunk,
Nicholas threatened to blow up the plane, and had to 7 JUNE: LONDON, ENGLAND
Williams, 25, a be restrained by crew and a fellow passenger. A 14-year-old girl was discovered to have been
Southwest locked in toilet with a 34-year-old man while
employee, was 1 JUNE: BRISTOL, ENGLAND the girl's parents slept during a Norwegian
arrested for Paul Richards, 29, became drunk and flight from Los Angeles to London. Cabin
voyeurism after he aggressive towards cabin crew during a crew claimed the girl voluntarily entered the
was found to have TUI flight from Bulgaria to Bristol. After bathroom with the man and that whatever
been placing cameras in a bathroom near pleading guilty in court, Richards was fined occurred was 'consensual' but police launched
the terminal gates at Sea-Tac. £1,190 and ordered to pay £100 to the an investigation into whether the man raped or
victim and £85 in costs. molested the girl. Another passenger, Sequoia
22 JULY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA Schmidt, 27, became argumentative with crew,
A dog managed to break free from its cage 2 JUNE: HALIFAX, CANADA insisting that the authorities in London should
in the hold of an Aeroflot flight from Saint A Condor be called. Schmidt was consequently banned
Petersburg, as it descended into Moscow, flight from for life from flying with Norwegian.
and opened the hold door by scratching at Frankfurt,
the door release button. The door was found Germany, to 8 JUNE: TOULOUSE, FRANCE
15-20cm ajar upon landing. Varadero, Cuba, A Jet2 flight from Belfast to Ibiza diverted to
diverted to Toulouse to offload an intoxicated passenger
25 JULY: DELHI, INDIA Halifax after three and his blow-up sex doll, who were part of a
A premature baby was found dead in the intoxicated rowdy stag party. The diversion doubled the
toilet of an AirAsia flight from Imphal to German passengers, Alexandros Moustakas, flight time to six hours.
New Delhi via Guwahati. Medics confirmed 48, his son, Niko Moustakas, 26, and Ingo
the baby had been a stillbirth and was most Hieronymus, 54, became threatening and 8 JUNE: ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
likely delivered in the toilet. A 19-year-old disruptive. Alexandros was handed a 60-day A Virgin Australia flight from Melbourne to Perth
woman was arrested. sentence after pleading guilty in court to diverted to Adelaide after a passenger became
engaging in behaviour that endangered the unruly and issued death threats to everyone on
25 JULY: BAGHDAD, IRAQ safety of the aircraft. Niko Moustakas and board. The incident allegedly started after cabin
An Iraqi Airways pilot and co-pilot began Hieronymus also pleaded guilty and were crew told the woman that they could only serve
brawling during a flight from Mashhad, Iran, sentenced to time already served of 15 days. her one glass of wine at a time.
to Baghdad, Iraq. The fight allegedly began Hieronymus was also fined $5,000 (c. £2,870).
when the pilot told cabin crew not to give 8 JUNE: FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
the co-pilot a food tray because he had 3 JUNE: ASTURIAS, SPAIN It was reported that George
not asked permission to eat. The quarrel An intoxicated passenger became unruly on Alexander, 82, poked a female
continued after landing, and the pair are an Iberia flight from Madrid. The passenger, member of American cabin
under investigation and facing lifetime bans. who was allegedly drunk as he boarded crew in the back as she was
the aircraft, became argumentative and lit serving other passengers
25 JULY: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES a cigarette during the flight. Civil Guard during a flight from Philadelphia to Fort
Isabelle Kumar and officers boarded the flight and arrested him Myers/Southwest Florida International. He
her family were removed upon landing. then hurled racist abuse at her and claimed
from an Emirates flight she was too overweight to do her job. He was
from Dubai to France 4 JUNE: GOA, INDIA arrested and charged with battery and
because she had An Air India passenger opened the interference with aircraft operations.
requested that her son, Eli, emergency exit and accidentally deployed
who suffers from autism, the evacuation slide while waiting for 9 JUNE: KALINGRAD, RUSSIA
severe learning disabilities his diverted flight to Mumbai to take off A flight bound for Moscow returned to
and epilepsy, have a window seat with a vacant again. The passenger claimed he'd been Khrabovo 10 minutes after take-off after an
seat next to it in case he had an epileptic fit. Eli feeling 'suffocated' and needed some air. intoxicated passenger became disruptive
had been cleared to fly by doctors and the Authorities let him off with a warning as he and struck a member of cabin crew.
family had already completed the first leg of was a first-time flyer.
their journey from New Zealand, but Emirates 12 JUNE: MALAGA, SPAIN
insisted on a medical certificate in order for Eli 4 JUNE: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Christine Humphreys, 56, a
to fly. After at least seven hours of waiting, the Genevieve Pascolla, British national who lives in
family eventually managed to board a flight to 26, claimed she woke up Malaga, was removed from an
Geneva. Emirates issued a public apology to during a United flight from easyJet flight to Liverpool
the family. London to Chicago to find after cabin crew claimed she
a man seated near her became disruptive during
29 JULY: KATHMANDU, NEPAL masturbating under a boarding. Humphreys claimed
A Flydubai flight to Dubai was delayed blanket. She claimed that that she had been unfairly
by more than 10 hours after cabin crew when she reported the removed from the flight and that she was
reported that their captain was behaving incident, cabin crew laughed at her and only asking for help from a member of cabin
strangely and subsequent tests showed that allowed the man to continue, despite the crew as she was too short to move bags in
he had been drinking. presence of children nearby. the overhead compartment by herself.
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15 JUNE: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 18 JUNE: CORK, ÉIRE 23 JUNE: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
A woman was removed from a Kulula flight It was reported that an intoxicated Actor and
to Durban after she was overheard referring passenger vomited on another passenger comedian Michael
to the captain using a racial slur while on the during a Ryanair flight from Malaga to Cork. Rapaport
phone. prevented another
19 JUNE: DOHA, QATAR passenger from
16 JUNE: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA A man thought to be an Iranian deportee attempting to
Delany Luh, 23, claimed she was molested ignored cabin crew's instructions to sit down open the
during a Delta flight from Chicago to LA and started begging for money during a emergency exit door one hour into an
but, despite informing cabin crew, the man Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Shiraz. American flight from Houston to LA. The
was allowed to disembark with no action passenger was allegedly confused and
being taken against him. Delta offered Luh 19 JUNE: RUSSIA thought the door was to the toilet.
an apology and a $200 credit voucher in A
recompense. video was 23 JUNE: GOROKA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
released An Air Niugini flight bound for Port
17 JUNE: PARIS, FRANCE online of Moresby returned to the terminal after an
Three intoxicated passengers caused an overexcited intoxicated passenger, reported to be a
8: 50am Ryanair flight from Dublin to Ibiza Brazilian policeman, caused a disturbance on board.
to divert to Paris Beauvais. The group had football fans The individual was held by police in Goroka
been drinking while waiting for their flight at flying out to Russia for the World Cup for two weeks before he was released
Dublin Airport. cheering and chanting as the flight attendant without charge.
performed the safety demo.
17 JUNE: SKOPJE, MACEDONIA 23 JUNE: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
A man became verbally abusive towards 20 JUNE: BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS A flight from Calgary to Illinois diverted
a member of Wizz Air cabin crew after Andrew Baker, the son of Massachusetts to Cedar Rapids after Guilherme Alves
she served him a turkey sandwich and he Governor Charlie Baker, allegedly sexually de Melo, 33, became disruptive. Other
noticed half-way through eating it that assaulted a female passenger during a passengers assisted crew in restraining de
the label read 'turkey ham', leading him JetBlue flight from Washington DC. The Melo after he started shouting expletives
to believe it contained pork. Despite passenger accused Baker of repeatedly and drawing on himself.
various crewmembers reassuring him groping her breast.
that the sandwich contained no pork 25 JUNE: ROCHESTER, MINNEAPOLIS
products, the Kosovan man launched 21 JUNE: NEW YORK, NEW YORK A Spirit Airlines flight from Houston to
a tirade of verbal insults on crew and An El Al flight was allegedly delayed Minneapolis diverted to Rochester after
demanded his money back. by 75 minutes after four ultra-orthodox a passenger required emergency medical
Jewish men refused to sit down as they around an hour into the trip. After landing,
had been allocated seats next to women a separate female passenger started
on a flight to Tel Aviv. They also refused to running up and down the aisle shouting
speak with female members of cabin crew. profanities and making threats, causing
The flight eventually took off after cabin several other passengers and a flight
crew asked passengers to swap seats. This attendant to burst into tears.
action contravened a court ruling made a
year ago preventing airlines from asking 26 JUNE: GANDER, CANADA
17 JUNE: MEXICO female passengers to move seats as it Joseph
A couple were filmed having sex in their amounts to discrimination. Parsons, 30, a
seats during a flight to Mexico. British national,
21 JUNE: FLORES, INDONESIA became drunk and
When a British man boarded a flight to disruptive during a
Bali carrying a large box and was asked British Airways
by a fellow passenger what it contained, flight from
a Portuguese woman identified only by Kingston, Jamaica
her initials, MR, 52, shouted in response, to Gatwick that had diverted to Gander for a
"Bombs!" All passengers were offloaded medical emergency. Parsons attempted to
and underwent further searches. Nothing kiss two members of cabin crew and tried to
suspicious was detected and the large fight several other passengers. He was
box was found to contain photographic arrested and spent 14 days in jail.
equipment.
29 JUNE: PARIS, FRANCE
22 JUNE: DALAMAN, TURKEY A male member of easyJet cabin crew was
Cabin choked and headbutted by an intoxicated
crew accused a passenger during delays to their flight to
woman of Mallorca caused by French ATC strikes.
drinking
duty-free 29 JUNE: PARIS, FRANCE
alcohol during A passenger physically and verbally
a flight from assaulted a member of Royal Air Maroc
Bristol to cabin crew before attempting to gain access
Dalaman. She and her family were to the cockpit during a flight to Paris. The
consequently barred from boarding their incident resulted in a delay of just under two
flight home to Bristol the following week. hours to the return flight to Casablanca.
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An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Jet Airways passengers protested the delays Elin Ersson, a
Vienna was delayed by 40 minutes after 26 and eventual cancellation of their flight from 21-year-old
ultra-Orthodox men refused to sit next to Delhi to Bhopal by exiting the aircraft and student, refused
women. The situation was finally resolved sitting on the tarmac. Passengers allegedly to take her seat
after the captain requested several women complained about a lack of communication, for take-off on a
to switch seats. air conditioning and food. Turkish Airlines
flight in protest of
29 JUNE: TORONTO, CANADA 12 JULY: PEORIA, ILLINOIS an Afghani man
A Sunwing flight to Panama returned to Mark H. Prather, 45, and James C. Prather, being deported to
Toronto escorted by two US military jets 43, were denied boarding their flight after Kabul via Istanbul
after Ali Shahi, 25, claimed to have a bomb several passengers complained about their on the same flight. Ersson livestreamed the
and intended to "blow up Canada" after drunken behaviour. incident, which was initially met with a mix of
discovering that cigarettes being sold on criticism and support from her fellow
board were 25 cents cheaper than those he 17 JULY: VINH, VIETNAM passengers. It concluded with the deportee
bought in the airport. Shahi's family claimed A passenger hit a member of cabin crew on being removed from the flight, at which
he has a history of mental illness. He was the head after he asked her to help him find point Ersson also deplaned to applause.
charged with mischief to property, mischief space in the overhead compartment for his
interfering of the lawful enjoyment of three pieces of luggage. He was fined VND 24 JULY: SRINAGAR, INDIA
property, uttering threats and endangering 15 million (c. £500). Lakhvinder Kumar, 30, allegedly shouted
the safety of an aircraft. He was released on during landing that the IndiGo flight from
CND $1,000 (c. £580) bail. 19 JULY: MUNICH, GERMANY Chandigarh had been hijacked.
A Thomas Cook flight from Belfast to
2 JULY: PARIS, FRANCE Dalaman diverted to Munich to offload 26 JULY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
A Norwegian an aggressive and abusive passenger. The It was reported that an intoxicated male
Air flight from flight's arrival in Dalaman was delayed by an passenger attempted to fight with security
Malaga to Helsinki hour and a half. officials during boarding of his flight to
diverted to Paris after Yakutsk. He was removed from the flight and
an unidentified man 19 JULY: HERAKLION, GREECE allegedly continued to lash out at airport
became intoxicated Three Scottish men became intoxicated employees as he returned to the terminal.
and caused a and aggressive during a Jet2 flight from
disturbance. Edinburgh to Crete after drinking from a
bottle of duty-free gin they had brought
4 JULY: TROMSØ, NORWAY on board. The men threatened staff and
An intoxicated man in his 20s was caught passengers and swore loudly, causing crew to
smoking in the toilets of a flight from Oslo call ahead for assistance at Heraklion Airport.
to Tromsø.
19 JULY: MALTA
5 JULY: PADANG, INDONESIA Dean Robert, 31, a British national, became
A passenger was caught smoking in the drunk and belligerent during a Thomas 27 JULY: NUREMBERG, GERMANY
bathroom of a Lion Air flight from Medan Cook flight to Malta. In court the following A flight to Palma was delayed due to police
to Penang. He avoided a fine but has been day, Robert pleaded guilty to reckless having to remove a passenger who was so
banned for life from flying with the airline. or negligent behaviour endangering the drunk they could not stand up.
aircraft and interfering in the performance
7 JULY: GOOSE BAY, CANADA of the crew’s duties whilst behaving in an 29 JULY: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
Elke Van De Voort, 21, became unruly abusive or disorderly manner. He was fined Singer and reality
during an Air Canada flight from Toronto to €1,545 (c. £1,370). celebrity Tamar Braxton
Amsterdam, causing it to divert to Happy and her sister Towanda
Valley-Goose Bay. 20 JULY: ATHENS, GREECE allegedly refused to follow
A delayed Travel Service flight from Tel Delta cabin crew's
Aviv to Madrid diverted to Athens after an instructions and appeared
intoxicated passenger struck two passengers to attempt to delay
and a member of cabin crew. The individual take-off from Minneapolis
was restrained by his fellow passengers and while they decided
eventually removed from the flight by Greek whether to take a different flight to Las
police. The flight landed for a second time Vegas. The sisters apparently decided to
in Prague to change crew, and eventually deplane but refused to take their luggage
9 JULY: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA arrived in Madrid eight hours late. with them, prompting cabin crew to order
Actor them to sit down. The sisters recorded a
Jonathan Rhys 22 JULY: LONDON, ENGLAND video of the pilot sternly telling them to
Meyers, 40, and his A 34-year- obey his crew and posted the video on social
wife Mara Lane got old intoxicated media accusing him of ridiculing them and of
into a verbal dispute Polish woman racial discrimination.
while travelling on squatted in the
an American Airlines galley of a Wizz 29 JULY: ORLANDO, FLORIDA
flight with their Air aircraft bound A London-bound Norwegian Air flight was
one-year-old son from Miami to Los Angeles. for Warsaw and urinated on the floor evacuated prior to take-off after a passenger
Meyers also attempted to use a vape pen but because cabin crew had told her the toilet became upset over his seat assignment and
obeyed crew's instructions to put it away. was locked during refuelling prior to take-off. made a comment about a bomb.
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Aino Ivanov Milen, a homeless man of Bulgarian A 59-year-old woman assaulted a member of
Pennanen, nationality, reportedly stole clothes, alcohol airport security staff and a police officer.
the legislative and photographic equipment from shops at
secretary of Malta International. He pleaded not guilty in 21 JUNE: WINTERLAND, CANADA
Finland's court and was remanded in custody. A section of perimeter fence at Winterland
Greens party, Airport was removed to allow an unknown
refused to take her seat on a Finnair flight to 10 JUNE: ATLANTA, GEORGIA vehicle to access the runway at night and use
Berlin when she found out that one of her Frank Ragin, it as a race track.
fellow passengers was being deported. an airport worker,
Pennanen was removed from the flight but was reported to 24 JUNE: MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
later defended her actions by drawing have verbally A 15-year-old girl alleged she was followed
attention to flaws in the country's assaulted NFL into a bathroom at Memphis International,
deportation procedures. player Adam violently assaulted and raped. She told her
"Pacman" Jones mother about the attack after they had
after the athlete arrived in Houston.
VANDALISM, THEFT, landed at Hartsfield-
TRESPASSING, ASSAULT Jackson. The pair then became embroiled in a 25 JUNE: BHUBANESWAR, INDIA
fist-fight, resulting in both individuals receiving Krishna Rout, 20, scaled the perimeter
1 JUNE: MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE minor injuries. Ragin was arrested and charged wall of Biju Patnaik International Airport
It was reported that two baggage handlers with two counts of battery. and approached the runway. Rout's father
from security firm Macro Seguranca told authorities his son suffered with
(subcontracted by MHS) were caught going 13 JUNE: JAKARTA, INDONESIA psychological disorders.
through passengers' luggage as they loaded Two Chinese nationals were caught stealing
it onto a flight to Chimoio. Mobile footage cash from various passengers during a Jetstar 27 JUNE: ATLANTA, GEORGIA
of the incident was released. flight from Singapore to Jakarta. Passengers Jhyrin Jones, 19, climbed a 12-
noticed the men watching passengers prior to ft perimeter fence wearing only his
1 JUNE: BENGALURU, INDIA boarding and then rummaging through bags in underwear, ran across the runway at
A 26-year-old woman claimed she was held overhead lockers once on board. The men were Hartsfield-Jackson and leapt onto the
hostage, assaulted, forced to strip and arrested and the money was discovered tucked wing of a Delta plane that had just landed.
photographed by a taxi driver on the way to into their seat pocket. Jones then proceeded to attempt to
the airport. The driver was arrested and his open the emergency exit door but gave
taxi seized. up when cabin crew held onto the door
to keep it closed. He was charged with
1 JUNE: MOSCOW, RUSSIA criminal trespassing, public indecency,
It was reported that causing damage and obstruction of law
two Sheremetyevo enforcement officers."
luggage porters, aged 30
and 36, allegedly stole
£8,200 in cash from the
luggage of retired Arsenal
football player Nwankwo Kanu as he
transited in Moscow on his way to 16 JUNE: HANFORD, CALIFORNIA
Kaliningrad ahead of the FIFA World Cup. Kevin Rukker stole a woman's car from
outside a church, drove to Hanford Municipal
3 JUNE: DA NANG, VIETNAM Airport and was later caught attempting to
A 32-year-old male passenger identified steal a plane. Rukker had been released from
only as Cuong became violent and unruly jail that morning.
after being told that his flight had left early
without him due to bad weather. The man 18 JUNE: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
had provided Vietjet with an incorrect phone Kathy Irene Albright, 24, broke a window
number and so did not receive the message. near a valet parking station, allegedly
One female member of staff was taken to because her flight was cancelled. 27 JUNE: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
hospital after the passenger threw his phone At least three flights were delayed and
at her eye. The passenger was fined VND 7.5 19 JUNE: NAIROBI, KENYA passengers offloaded and re-screened
million (c. £250). Artist Mohau Modisakeng, 32, verbally after a man jumped over a security barrier
and then physically abused a woman he in the terminal and accessed the departure
6 JUNE: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA was due to travel to Johannesburg with lounge via the arrival doors.
Sam Nedawi, 56, an while waiting in the terminal for their
airport shop assistant flight. Modisakeng allegedly ripped up the 27 JUNE: DELHI, INDIA
and Lufthansa check-in woman's passport and slapped her. Two female airport employees filed a
agent at Chalotte sexual harassment claim with against
Douglas, is alleged to a 48-year-old manager after their
have sexually assaulted complaints were not taken seriously
a 20-year-old female by their employers. The women both
passenger over a worked for a private company, which
period of around 20 minutes. He was runs the restaurants and lounges in
arrested and charged with misdemeanour the domestic terminal at Indira Gandhi
sexual battery. International.
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Nicholas Todd It was reported that two 24-year-olds An unidentified male passenger was arrested
Hanson was removed from went to the office of the airport parking for trespassing after he attempted to board
a flight for unruly behaviour money collector, assaulted him and stole a United flight, despite being told he was
and later got into an a bag containing AED 54,370 (c. £11,500) too late.
argument with staff at the in cash. The employee managed to chase
airline's ticket counter when the two assailants, retrieve the bag and
they refused to pay for a turn the culprits into the police with the
hotel. Police told Hanson to help of a bystander.
leave the terminal but he returned after 30
minutes and again an hour later. He was 10 JULY: ATLANTA, GEORGIA
arrested and charged with criminal trespassing. E’Donis Trevel Andrews, 22, was found
intoxicated, injured and walking inside the
4 JULY: PAPHOS, CYPRUS secured perimeter at Hartsfield-Jackson
A 46-year-old Ukrainian man scaled a fence at 2am. 16 JULY: CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA
at Paphos International in a desperate The domestic terminal at Cairns was
attempt to join his family on their Ryanair 12 JULY: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND briefly evacuated and all passengers
flight to Krakow. The man had dropped his 11 cars parked at a 'safe & secure' re-screened after a woman entered a
family off at the terminal and then left to car park at Manchester Airport had their restricted area.
return their rental car but got lost on the windows smashed by thieves. Victims were
way back. He was fined 500 euros. told that there was nothing that could be 16 JULY: NEW YORK, NEW YORK
done, despite there being CCTV on site. Mark Mogensen, a man in his early 20s who
4 JULY: TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS had been missing from a mental health
Zemarcuis Devon facility in Virginia, was found soaking wet on
Scott, 18, breached a JFK runway having allegedly swum across
perimeter security at Jamaica Bay and climbed a perimeter fence.
Texarkana Regional The incident prompted officials to review
Airport and gained perimeter security.
access to the cockpit of
an American Eagle plane, 17 JULY: PALMA, SPAIN
which he later told police A Moldovan national threatened a member
he had intended to steal of cabin crew after she prevented him from
and fly to a rap concert in boarding a flight to Kiev, deeming him too
Chicago. intoxicated to fly.
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A 71-year-old airport employee was hit Bolutife Olusegun Olorunda, 29, was Robert Henderson, 64, was found not
on the head with a bat after attempting released from jail pending further court guilty of masturbating during a Thomson
to break up a fight in the airport car park. hearings on the condition that he surrender flight from Rhodes to Glasgow in July
Three men and one woman were arrested in his passport and promise not to travel on 2017. Henderson claimed he was simply
connection with the incident any commercial flights. Olorunda became "having a scratch".
disruptive and violent during a Delta flight
25 JULY: ZHENGDING, CHINA from Portland, Oregon to Atlanta, causing it 7 JULY: NORTH SHIELDS, ENGLAND
A woman travelling with a young child to divert to Tulsa on 20 May. It was reported that Miles Cowell was
repeatedly slapped a female airport sentenced to a 12-month conditional
employee after being told she could not 10 JUNE: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES discharge and ordered to pay £85 in costs
jump a queue to board her flight unless she A 34-year-old Pakistani man was sentenced to and a £20 victim surcharge in connection
asked permission from other passengers three months in jail for becoming intoxicated, with an incident that took place on a Jet2
first. The employee retaliated by hitting and verbally assaulting a police officer and flight from Faro to Newcastle in April.
kicking the woman back. exposing his genitals to him before passing Cowell became intoxicated on seven
out at Dubai International. strawberry daiquiris, which he mixed with
27 JULY: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA prescription drug, Diazepam. Cowell
A Kuwaiti woman, 32, and her 29-year-old 19 JUNE: BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND repeatedly threw his weight into the
partner became violent towards customs Paul Anthony back of his seat, causing food and drink
officials after being told that their dog would Burgoyne, 51, was jailed to be spilled across a boy with autism
have to remain in quarantine. A female for three months, fined seated behind him. Cowell also became
customs employee was hospitalised after the £500 and ordered to aggressive towards his partner, who
woman attacked her, along with four others pay £600 in connection requested to move seats.
who received injuries while trying to intervene. with an incident on
board an easyJet aircraft 9 JULY: WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
28 JULY: MUNICH, GERMANY at Belfast International in February. Burgoyne New
Munich's terminal two was evacuated, 330 drunkenly responded to a cabin crew request Zealand's
flights cancelled and others grounded for to raise his window blind with a Nazi salute Transport
seven hours after a 40-year-old woman while shouting, "All right, mein Fuhrer!". He Minister Phil
managed to breach security by slipping also swore at crew and attempted to grab the Twyford was
past officials and entering a secure area. captain by the throat, breaking the captain’s fined NZD $500
The breach was reported after 15 minutes. £600 watch. Once Burgoyne had been (c. £260) for
Estimated damages resulting from the removed from the aircraft, he then attempted breaking CAA
incident total €1 million (c. £890,000) and to commandeer the aircraft's tug. rules regarding
three security agents were dismissed. the use of
25 JUNE: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND portable electronic devices during flights.
31 JULY: KELOWNA, CANADA Shamraize Bashir, Twyford used his phone to make a call just
A 54-year-old man was stabbed in the carpark 34, was sentenced to before his Air New Zealand flight took off
of Kelowna International after attempting 100 hours community for Auckland in May. He apologised and
to intervene when he came across a theft in service for making loud, offered his resignation, but continues in his
progress. The man was taken to hospital with anti-Semitic remarks post, ceasing only his work with the CAA.
a non-life threatening injury. and swearing during an
easyJet fight from Tel Aviv to Manchester in 9 JULY: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
JUDGEMENTS June 2017. Bashir blamed the outburst on his Five suspects were released after an Istanbul
& ARRESTS cannabis use; he was ordered by the court to court found they were not responsible for
seek help for his addiction. the 2016 attack on Atatürk Airport. A total
24 MAY: CRAWLEY, ENGLAND of 46 people were tried, six of whom face
Shane O'Grady, 30, was fined £1000 plus 26 JUNE: LEWES, ENGLAND life sentences and another 15 face sentences
£85 in costs and a £100 victim surcharge Uche Ezedinma, 36, was jailed for 14 months of between seven and 15 years. The next
after pleading guilty to being intoxicated on and ordered to pay a £140 victim surcharge in hearing will be on 12 November.
a Virgin flight from Las Vegas to Gatwick on connection with an incident that forced a Virgin
23 May. O'Grady became abusive towards Atlantic flight from Gatwick to St Lucia to 10 JULY: NORWICH, ENGLAND
cabin crew and urinated in his seat. divert to the Azores, Portugal, in January 2017. It was reported that Malachi Adam-Smith,
Ezedinma, who was travelling with his mother, 32, was sentenced to remain in a secure
6 JUNE: BUFFALO, NEW YORK spat at a member of cabin crew, punched an hospital unit until he is deemed well
Michael Hildebrand, 50, pleaded guilty to overhead bin, smoked in the aircraft's toilet enough to be released after he admitted
repeatedly drunkenly groping the thigh of a and threatened crew. Ezedinma was arrested to breaking into a secure area of Norwich
woman seated next to him on a United flight by Portuguese authorities but released after International, threatening and assaulting
from Newark Liberty International to Buffalo, two hours. Police at Gatwick later launched an airport workers and issuing a bomb threat
New York in December. investigation into the incident and prosecuted in April last year.
Ezedinma in the UK.
7 JUNE: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 10 JULY: TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Manodh Marks, 26, was jailed for 12 years 28 JUNE: KEY WEST, FLORIDA Bolutife Olorunda, 29, was ordered to pay
in connection with an incident in May 2017. A homeless man, James Crabtree, 35, $9,118 (c. £7,000) to Delta after pleading
Marks announced that he had a bomb while was sentenced to four years in prison for guilty to verbally assaulting a member of
running down the aisle of a Malaysian flight attempting to stowaway on a Delta flight cabin crew and being disruptive on a flight
bound for Kuala Lumpur holding a speaker to Atlanta in 2015. Crabtree broke into the on 30 May. Olorunda's behaviour resulted
and power bank. The flight subsequently Delta aircraft prior to the flight and hid in a in the Portland to Oregon flight diverting
returned to Melbourne shortly after take-off. storage bin. to Tulsa.
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