THREATS

4 APRIL         ATHENS

A Thomson flight, en route from Bristol to Sharm el Sheikh, diverted to Athens after a phone call was received claiming a bomb was on board.

22 APRIL       TAIPEI

TransAsia Airways’ Kaohsiung branch office received a call from a man who said that his friend was unhappy with the airline and that he would be taking a bomb with him on a flight from Kaohsiung to one of the outlying islands.

24 APRIL       BRUSSELS

A Wizzair flight bound for Sofia was delayed for three hours because of a bomb threat.

29 APRIL       NEW YORK

Christian Boncorps, 61, allegedly told an Air France ticket agent at JFK that “My name is bin Laden, and I have a bomb in my bag” when checking in for his flight to Paris. Boncorps was charged with filing a false report and later fined $250.

29 APRIL       EL CALAFATE, CALIFORNIA

An Aerolineas Argentinas flight en route from Buenos Aires to El Calafate was the target of a bomb threat.

8 MAY           ALBUQUERQUE

A Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to San Diego was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

14 MAY         HO CHI MINH CITY

Mariano Francois Xavier Jean Agostini, 27, was arrested on boarding a Vietnam Airlines to Da Nang after he was overheard telling a Vietnamese woman that he had a bomb in his cabin baggage.

15 MAY         RHODE ISLAND

A woman was escorted off a Mesaba Airlines flight departing T.F. Green Airport after she allegedly made a threatening comment.

16 MAY         ISTANBUL

A passenger booked on a Turkish Airlines flight to Stuttgart made a bomb threat after he arrived late for the flight and was denied boarding.

17 MAY         FLORIDA

David Michael Smith, 37, allegedly made a bomb threat at Southwest Florida International Airport.

18 MAY         MELBOURNE

The Australian media were sent letters threatening attacks at both Avalon and Tullamarine airports.

19 MAY         TEREVAN, ARMENIA

A man claimed that there was a bomb at Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport resulting in the terminal being evacuated.

22 MAY         YEREVAN, ARMENIA

An anonymous caller claimed that there was a bomb on board an aircraft preparing to depart Yerevan Zvartnots Airport for Amsterdam.

25 MAY         SURABAYA, INDONESIA

Garuda Airlines received a threat by fax citing both Surabaya and Jakarta’s airports. In Surabaya’s departure lounge, a suspicious package was found containing liquids.

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