This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Panama-bound Canadian flight back to Toronto on Friday so the authorities could take a 25-year-old Canadian suspect in custody. According to several eyewitnesses, the Sunwing plane was asked to turn around after a passenger said he wanted to bomb Canada.
Flight 772 left Toronto’s Pearson International Airport at 7 a.m. on Friday, heading toward Panama City with 181 passengers, two infants and a crew of six on board. According to a passenger named Bettina Bathe, the incident took place a short while after takeoff when a flight attendant came by to pass out headsets. Bathe explained that “he basically just tore a strip off her, explaining how expensive the cigarettes are here in Canada, he hates Canada” adding that “then he said, with great expression using his hands, ‘I just want to bomb Canada.'” Upon informing the relevant authorities, the flight was made to divert back to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, i.e. about 45 minutes into the flight, escorted by two fighter jets.
NORAD confirmed to have sent two F-16 jets to escort Sunwing Flight 772 back to Pearson, which were already in the air for training. The flight landed safely at Toronto’s Pearson at around 8:55 a.m., where law enforcement agencies were present to deal with the situation. A passenger footage shared online shows armed tactical police officers boarding flight 772 once it landed. The suspect identified as Ali Shahi was taken in custody by The Criminal Investigations Bureau from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
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