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The Star-Monday 2009 April 20.
A hostage stand-off at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James that lasted over nine and a half hours, ended after 6 a.m. this morning when members of the military and police stormed the aircraft and overpowered the hijacker.
A 20-year-old Montego Bay resident, Stephen Fray took over the CanJet Airlines charter flight shortly after 10 p.m. after evading several checkpoints and boarding the aircraft.
Armed man
A statement last night from Kent Woodside, the vice president and general manager of CanJet Airlines, said “An armed man boarded CanJet Flight 918 which had landed at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay.”
The statement added, “Flight 918 had departed from Halifax at 7:15 p.m. The flight was due to travel from Montego Bay to Santa Clara, in Cuba. There were 174 passengers and eight crew scheduled to leave Montego Bay on Flight 918.”
Fray who spent most of the time on the aircraft in the back cabin reportedly demanded fuel, and a cellular phone…read full story