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Man threatens to blow up hospital helicopter
February 1, 2007

Des Moines police are looking for a man who made threats to blow up a hospital helicopter. Police said the man made the threats Thursday night in front of Mercy Medical Center employees. After leaving the medical center grounds the man called the emergency room by phone and again threatened to bomb the Mercy air ambulance.

Investigators say they know who he is but no arrests immediately were reported. Officials did not report what triggered the threats.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/NEWS/70201003/1001/NEWS

3 held with bogus papers at Chennai airport (India)
2/2/07

CHENNAI: I mmigration authorities at the Chennai airport detained three persons -- a Sri Lankan national, a Swiss national and a carrier -- after they were found to have used fake documents to board different flights past midnight on Wednesday.

The immigration authorities said the Sri Lankan national, Somasundaram Mayuran, took the boarding pass in the name of S. Martin to board a Mumbai-bound flight. The carrier, Gopalan Sarveswaran, also obtained a boarding pass for the same flight. Both waited in the security hall area.

The Swiss national, Scheidner Martin, holding a Swiss passport, checked in for a Lufthansa flight bound for San Francisco via Frankfurt. He came to the security hall, where he exchanged his boarding pass with Mayuran. On suspicion, the immigration authorities interrogated Sarveswaran and detained Mayuran. The authorities seized a fake Indian passport from Mayuran, issued in the name of Solomon Martin.

Operator behind deal
While the interrogation was on, the Swiss national left for Mumbai. The immigration authorities alerted their counterparts in Mumbai, who sent him back to Chennai. The immigration authorities said Shiva, a Jakarta-based person, was the operator.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/02/stories/2007020204320400.htm

Air France: Paris-Rome flight diverted following security alert
February 1, 2007

PARIS: A bomb alert prompted a Paris-Rome flight to be diverted to Lyon in southeast France on Thursday, but police found nothing suspicious in a search of the plane, French authorities said. Passengers and crew disembarked from the Airbus A320 jet in Lyon, after which authorities searched the airplane and baggage, Lyon city authorities said.

Air France would not say what triggered the alert, which authorities said was received in Rome. There was no immediate information on whether anyone was arrested after the plane had landed. Rome-bound flight AF1504 took off from Paris' main airport, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, shortly after 10 a.m. (0900 GMT) and landed in Lyon about 90 minutes later, an Air France spokesman said. According to company policy, he would not be quoted by name.

"An alert was given to the captain, and the captain took the decision to land at Lyon," where the 126 passengers and 6 crew members disembarked, he said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/01/europe/EU-GEN-France-Italy-Flight-Diverted.php