Sunday, 6:00 pm (ET): CanJet Flight 918 leaves Halifax for Montego Bay, Jamaica. It is expected to leave Jamaica later Sunday night and stop in Santa Clara, Cuba, before returning to Halifax.
11:30 pm: An armed Jamaican man breaches security and bursts onto the plane, a Boeing 737 parked on the tarmac at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. He plans to take over the plane, which is carrying 182 passengers and crew, and fly to Cuba.
Midnight: The gunman releases two crew members and all 174 passengers after taking their money. Six crew members remain on the plane.
Monday, 1:30 am: Passenger Christian Gosselin calls his father, Alphonse, in Sheila, N.B. to tell him about the hijacking.
Flight attendant Heidi Tofflemire calls her mother, Karen, in Chezzetcook, N.S., to tell her about the hijacking.
7:40 am: A Jamaican counter-terrorism squad storms the airplane, a Boeing 737, after negotiations break down, nabbing the hijacker. Authorities identify him as Stephen Fray, a 20-year-old resident of Montego Bay. Authorities describe him as a "troubled young man" who was upset about a failed relationship.
The Jamaican government says it will compensate passengers for cash or other valuables they forked over to the gunman.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in Jamaica for a one-day visit, offers his plane to fly some passengers back to Canada. However, CanJet announces plans to send a plane to Montego Bay to take passengers and crew to Santa Clara, Cuba or back to Canada.
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