MONTREAL – A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to a 30-day jail term after becoming involved in an mid-air altercation with a fellow passenger aboard an Air Canada flight en route from Toronto to Frankfurt that forced the plane to land in Montreal on Wednesday evening shortly after takeoff.

Montreal police spokesperson Daniel Lacoursière said that Khodr Ahmad received the sentence in Montreal court Thursday after pleading guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace.

Flight AC872 departed Toronto’s Pearson International Airport for Germany around 6 p.m. Wednesday. Before the plane had left the continent, however, a fight broke out between Ahmad and another male passenger.

The flight was forced to land at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport, and the man apparently engaged in the confrontation with Ahmad didn’t want to press charges, so the latter was evicted from the airplane.”

Ahmad then proceeded to an Air Canada kiosk at the airport, where he began “yelling and shouting,” according to police.

Ahmad’s sentencing comes in the middle of a worldwide increase in airport security in the wake of an abortive attempt by a passenger to blow up a flight from Amsterdam just as it was about to land in Detroit.

The security changes, which include passengers being required to arrive at the airport early and a ban on carry-on luggage, have increased travel delays.

Bartamaha News Desk.

Source: Montrealgazzete.

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