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April 20, 2009
Hostages held at Jamaica airport
Passengers were reportedly taken hostage on a charter flight at a Jamaican airport.
They were boarding the CanJet flight from Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay to Halifax, Canada, late Sunday when the security breach occurred, said Elizabeth Scotton, a spokeswoman for the company that manages the airport.
Scotton would not say how many hostages were being held.
About 150 people were scheduled to be on the flight, said Jamaican police Lt. Col. Derek Robinson, and it was not known how many were on the plane.
A passenger, Brenda Grenier, called her husband and said a man apparently had sneaked aboard the plane and had taken hostages. Grenier and her daughter were safe, her husband said by phone from his home in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Jamaican police and the company's security personnel were handling the incident, Scotton said.
Lt. Damain Bromley of the police said they were waiting for more information. An airport official reported the security breach, he added.
source:http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/20/jamaica.security/index.html