I don't know about CAI but SSH (old airport) would not surprise me.

We'd gone as a large group of friends on a package tour diving holiday. Some of our number were phobic about flying (including one who lived in NI and studied in Leeds - clearly loved ferries!). We'd struck up friends with a tabloid photographer (who was an avid underwater photographer and wreck diver) and his party, so we were quite an extended group checking in for the flight at 02:00.

Going through security, several of us witnessed saw the baggage screeners putting ammunition into one of our bags... after the bag had been screened! The date was November 2001.

The airport could offer no reasonable (!) explanation for this. The flight operator contacted the pilot of our flight, who then refused to fly the 'plane until the 'plane had been search and all the bags had been rescreened BY HIS CREW and an explanation was forthcoming. The tabloid photographer was straight on the 'phone to the UK news desk as well. A loooong stand-off then ensued, which only ended with the intervention of the MoD with the Egyptian equivalent.

Meanwhile our reluctant flyers had run out of tranquilisers and nictoine patches....