Incident Date:
April 20, 2009
Incident Successful: No
Location: Montego Bay Jamaica
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Airport)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/20/2009: A mentally disturbed gunman in his twenties got past a security guard and walked onto a B737 CanJet (a Canadian carrier), flight 918, that had arrived from Halifax, Canada. The flight included 174 Canadian passengers and eight crew members. The flight was scheduled to fly to Santa Clara, Cuba, from Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport. As he was taking the passengers hostage, he fired a bullet that grazed the co-pilot's face. After robbing the passengers, he allowed them to depart, but kept six crew members hostage and demanded to be flown off the island. Two of those crew members locked themselves in the cockpit. Eight hours later, troops stormed the plane and arrested the hijacker at 7:00 a.m."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (2013). Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology. North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. p. 60"
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