Actually, the flight was first diverted to Mirabel (Montreal) until security people could do a full assessment, including at Pearson, before it was released for Hamilton (and, I believe, one more onward destination). Evan McElravy on 10/23/03 2:27 PM, Jenifer Buie at Jenifer.Buie@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Just heard on CBC that El AL diverted to YHM because of threats to the > airline and YYZ. > > Brilliant plan by their operations department. If the aircraft had > landed in YYZ they wouldn't have been going anywhere - a stop in YHM > only delays the flight a couple of hours - not a big deal in the grand > scheme of things!