AIR WATCH – INCIDENTS

23 Jun 2011

3 APRIL         ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST

As the country descended towards civil war, the French army took control over Ivory Coast’s main international airport.

 

6 APRIL         MELBOURNE

The Qantas domestic terminal at Melbourne Airport was evacuated after a security breach into the restricted zone.

8 APRIL         CLEVELAND

The airport had to be evacuated due to a screening technology failure.

12 APRIL       EL ALTO, BOLIVIA

Hundreds of teachers blocked roads linking El Alto to La Paz as part of their union action.

18 APRIL       KILLEEN-FORT HOOD

An inert training aid left in a black Chevrolet Silverado, that had been returned to a car rental company by an explosives instructor, resulted in the lockdown of Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport.

19 APRIL      SYDNEY

A security breach resulted in the terminal being evacuated and forcing all passengers to be rescreened.

21 APRIL       DALLAS

The former Miss USA, Susie Castillo, 31, made a YouTube video after going through the screening checkpoint at Dallas/Fort Worth. In tears, she explained that, having declined to go through the body scanner, she had undergone a pat down search which she felt was excessive and claimed she was repeatedly touched inappropriately. On her blog, she wrote:  “Am I a threat to U.S. security? I was Miss USA, for Pete’s sake!”

25 APRIL       SYDNEY

In released WikiLeaks files, it emerged that a former Australian terror suspect, Mamdouh Habib, had told Egyptian interrogators that he was going to hijack a Qantas flight and had trained six of the 11th September hijackers in martial arts. When questioned by US military officials at Guantanamo Bay in 2002, he said he had lied to the authorities in Egypt under duress. He was released without charge in 2005 and returned to Australia. Habib is now suing the Egyptian government, claiming he was tortured through electric shocks, cigarette burns, attack by dogs, sexual violation and water torture.

27 APRIL       TEL AVIV

An El Al flight bound for Frankfurt returned to the gate when a passenger overheard another say that there was a bomb on board.

29 APRIL       ENTEBBE, UGANDA

The arrest of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye resulted in protesters burning tyres, throwing rocks and erecting burning barricades along the main road to Entebbe International Airport.

2 MAY           ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN

Osama bin Laden was killed during an operation conducted by US Navy SEALs and CIA operatives.

3 MAY           BUENOS AIRES

Employees of the private security company “Securitas” working at Ezeiza International Airport shut down the premises’ accesses in a demonstration to request better working conditions.

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