Air Canada bomb threat

[jahulian]

I heard on the news an Air Canada plane departing from Toronto bound For London diverted to Montreal yesterday because of a bomb threat.  wondering if anyone has more info or any audio clips from the incident.

Julian

[englishpilot]

Well they got word of the threat whilst still in Canada so there might have been a freq on this site that picked it up.

On a second not what would the pilot say to his pax?

It's not like he would say "folks we've had a bomb threat on this aircraft and we've got to land" - must have been blagged as a tech stop.

[kea001]

ACA 848 YYZ to EGLL diverted to CYUL

Departed 09:06PM EST  Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes

http://flightaware.com/live/flight_track_bigmap.rvt?ident=ACA848-1227145540-7236-10;airports=CYYZ+CYUL;key=1e016215e730bd95e4111b513e755a1c6cbe295d;keytime=1227657405;height=340;width=400;departuretime=1227233160;arrivaltime=1227238800


Interestingly, this is the same flight number, ACA 848,  that experienced the flight attendant replacing the unbalanced co-pilot; the report release hit the news on Nov. 19th, the day before this incident:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081119.waircanada1119/BNStory/National/home

however that occurred on a flight from Heathrow to Toronto.

[tyketto]

Funny that if that track is correct, they spent most of their time with the potential bomb onboard, over US airspace.

BL.

[kea001]

Funny that if that track is correct, they spent most of their time with the potential bomb onboard, over US airspace.

BL.

I can't explain that pattern, but I'm pretty sure that didn't happen. Average time between YYZ and YUL is 60 min.
Must be a software fubar.

Here's an interesting one:

http://map5.flightaware.com/flight_track_map.rvt?ident=ACA422-1227567954-85236-19;airports=CYYZ+CYUL;key=326558f3cd26b717bab22dff7fbbb9474d396a2e;keytime=1227659216;height=340;width=400;departuretime=1227654840;arrivaltime=1227657960

[delta092b]

Interestingly, this is the same flight number, ACA 848,  that experienced the flight attendant replacing the unbalanced co-pilot; the report release hit the news on Nov. 19th, the day before this incident:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081119.waircanada1119/BNStory/National/home

however that occurred on a flight from Heathrow to Toronto.

It was actually YYZ - LHR, not LHR - YYZ

[bcrosby]

I find it interesting that they diverted to YUL and not YQB which wwas probably closer.

[Scrapper]

CYQB's runways might not have been long for a heavy plane loaded with fuel for an oceanic crossing.

[bcrosby]

YQB has a 9000' runway.. large.. but not as large as YULs 11,000' runway.

So perhaps you are right.