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A SWAT team enters the plane after it lands back in Toronto Friday morning.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...enger-threatens-bomb-canada-article-1.1880680A crazed Canadian man on board a commercial airplane cruising above West Virginia threatened to bomb his own country, forcing the pilot to turn around as two American fighter jets escorted the plane back to Toronto
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Sunwing Flight 772 was only 45 minutes into its Friday morning flight to Panama City, Fla., when an agitated 25-year-old Ali Shahi began ranting and “made a direct threat against the aircraft,”
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The pilots decided to turn the flight — with 183 passengers and six crewmembers aboard — back to Canada, while F-16 fighter jets on a training run outside Toledo, Ohio were scrambled to accompany the plane back to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport
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“We heard him speaking, we heard him yelling. He was being pretty belligerent, using a lot of cuss words,” Phil Thompson
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He said he didn’t care what happened to the plane or the people on it and he didn’t like Canada and didn’t care about Canada. He didn’t care about the consequences of his actions, he literally didn’t care if the plane went down.”
Once the plane landed
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a local SWAT team boarded the jet, ordering everyone to keep their heads down and hands up as the cleared the plane and arrested the suspect
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Shahi faces two mischief charges, uttering threats and endangering the safety of an aircraft,
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"He basically just tore a strip off her, explaining how expensive the cigarettes are here in Canada, he hates Canada," witness Bettina Bathe
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of the fracas mid-flight. "Then he said, with great expression using his hands, 'I just want to bomb Canada.'"
Shahi’s father, who went unnamed,
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that his son has dealt with mental health issues.
“I am sorry for what happened on the flight, but Ali is not at fault," he told
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"I blame the police and health system. We called the police for help more than 23 times in the last two to three years, but unfortunately they did nothing to help us or help my son."