A hostage-taker released all but two passengers and five crew members early Monday from a charter plane at a Jamaican airport, officials said.
Police had the plane surrounded and were negotiating with the hostage-taker. It was not immediately known what the man's demands were.
Passengers were boarding the CanJet flight at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay late Sunday when the man took an undisclosed number of them hostage, said Elizabeth Scotton, a spokeswoman for the company managing the airport.
About 150 people were scheduled to be on the flight, said Jamaican police Lt. Col. Derek Robinson, and it was not known how many were on the plane.
A passenger, Brenda Grenier, called her husband and said a man apparently had sneaked aboard the plane and had taken hostages. Grenier and her daughter were safe, her husband said by phone from his home in Nova Scotia, Canad
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