MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — The gunman who took six Canadian crew members hostage on a CanJet flight at Sangster International Airport has been captured by police and the crew has been freed.
Police said the gunman boarded CanJet flight 918 after he breached security at Sangster International Airport late Sunday evening. He was nabbed after a tense eight-hour standoff at the airport, one of the largest in the Caribbean.
CanJet said none of the passengers or crew members have been harmed.
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“Hijacked CanJet passengers feared for their lives: ‘We are happy to be alive’”
Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service
Published: Monday, April 20, 2009
SNIPPET: “Mr. Golding promised a full investigation into the security breach that allowed a 21-year-old Jamaican man, identified as Stephen Fray, to burst onto the plane Sunday night at 10:22 p.m. local time with a gun. Mr. Golding said the man is being interrogated and has not yet been charged with any crime.
“I’m extremely relieved that it is over and nobody was hurt,” he said earlier Monday. “I spoke with the passengers last night and apologized.”
Passengers who were released safely from the hijacked aircraft said the gunman was demanding to be flown out of the country. They described the “surreal” encounter with the gunman and credited the flight crew with defusing the situation and allowing them to safely leave the plane.
“This is a real hijacking, this is f-—ing serious. I want out of the country,” passenger Suzanne Ferguson, recalled the gunman saying.”