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Canadian flight delayed by suspicious man

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-02-25 11:55
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OTTAWA: A Canada's WestJet flight bound for Toronto was delayed Wednesday for more than four hours due to a man who started behaving suspiciously moments before takeoff in Montreal.

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Authorities at the Montreal Trudeau airport, quoted by local media, said the man was escorted off the plane by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers at 10:15 am local time,

All remaining some 90 passengers were asked to get off the plane and were placed in a closed room to undergo security screening when the police boarded the plane, a 136-seat 737-700 series, with dogs.

Several other flights were delayed around the time of the incident, but no other departures or arrivals were affected.

The suspicious passenger was transferred to a police station in Montreal for questioning and was released afterwards with no charges.

Founded in 1996, WestJet Airlines Ltd is a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Calgary, Alberta that flies within Canada and to the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

WestJet, with over 7,500 employees and $1.2 billion of market capitalization, is the second largest Canadian carrier behind Air Canada.
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