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Bound flight sent back to Toronto; passenger arrested

Air Canada says the flight – AC1312 – was carrying 199 passengers from Calgary to Toronto when a customer became disruptive.

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Jaskaran Sidhu, who lives in Alberta, was arrested by the police upon the flight’s landing here at the Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Greater Toronto Airport Authority spokesperson Siobahn Desroches said Air Canada flight AC070 left Pearson at 8:57 pm local time, and the incident occurred approximately three hours in the flight, when it was over the Atlantic Ocean. “Everyone stayed calm”, a passenger told CNN News.

The flight attendant was not injured. “They took a U-turn and we came back here”. Flight AC6006 was then rescheduled to take off later.

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A website called Flightradar24 says a Boeing 777 en route from Shanghai to Toronto has been diverted to Calgary.

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