Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Airport Dramas

1. "Naked Canadian man jumps on moving Qantas jet"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1234821.htm>
"A Canadian man angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los
 Angeles International Airport has stripped naked, climbed a barbed wire fence,
 sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo
 jet"

2. "Stripper in airport scare"
   <http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/18/1084783518786.html>
"A drunken woman looking for a place to sleep slipped past security and onto an
 aircraft at Aberdeen airport in Scotland where she dozed unnoticed for several
 hours, sparking a review of security"

3. "Air passenger dropped his trousers"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_959437.html>
"A passenger at Cologne airport stunned staff who asked him to remove his belt
 by taking off his trousers instead"

4. "Man in pyjama bottoms beats US airport security"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1030127.html>
"A US airline passenger drove a baggage tractor on to a runway while wearing
 only a pair of pyjama bottoms"

5. "Boy, 4, sneaks onto airport conveyor belt"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1163414.htm>
"A four-year-old boy caused chaos at a Norwegian airport this week when he
 hopped aboard a luggage conveyor belt next to an unstaffed check-in desk"

6. "Woman drives car through airport terminal"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1123450.html>
"A woman returning her rented car to an airport drop-off point - drove the
 vehicle through a terminal building"

7. "Spilled nail varnish on plane prompts emergency at German airport"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/07/03/524143-ap.html>
"A spilled bottle of nail varnish on-board an aircraft prompted emergency
 services to rush into action at an airport in northern Germany"

8. "Vibrator closes airport"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1127123.html>
"An adult sex toy sparked a security scare which closed an Australian airport
 for nearly an hour"

9. "Drunken flight attendant beats up passenger"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/07/20/550181-ap.html>
"Drunken passengers often give air crews trouble, but Russia's leading airline
 on Tuesday reported an 'unprecedented' reversal: a passenger was assaulted by
 intoxicated flight attendants"