2 men arrested at Montreal airport after incident on flight prompts fighter jet alert
CBC
Quebec provincial police arrested two men after a suspicious package grounded flights headed to Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Wednesday.
Police say the two men, one who is in his 20s and the other in his 30s, were onboard flights to Montreal and were questioned by investigators and later released.
A spokesperson for the provincial police force, the Sûreté du Québec, says they could face fraud-related charges.
On Wednesday afternoon, reports of a suspicious package prompted the shut down of one of the aiport's two runways, reducing the number of flights coming in.
CBC News has reached out to provincial police and is expecting to get more details about what they believe is the link between the two men arrested and the incident at the airport.
In an email to Radio-Canada, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it was following an "incident related to air safety" involving two planes whose destination was the Montreal airport.
NORAD said fighter jets like the CF-18, F-16 and KC-135 "monitored the situation until the commercial planes landed safely at their destination."
Just before 5 p.m., the airport announced that both runways had been reopened and there was no threat to passengers. The situation had caused delays for some domestic and cross-border flights.
"The investigation conducted by local law enforcement has concluded and has been found to be unfounded," said Eric Forest, spokesperson Aéroports de Montréal.
"Standard security protocols were activated to ensure the safety of the travelling public and the facilities following the identification of a suspicious suitcase on board a flight that landed at YUL."
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