A woman climbed a barbed wire fence
at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Sunday
with the intention to stop the plane she thought was carrying her husband, said
a Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman.
“Her intent was to stop the aircraft
from taking off,” said Sgt. Al LeBlanc. “She jumped the security fence, but she
was nowhere near the aircrafts. The airport staff and the Mounted Police
responded right away and apprehended her.”
The woman climbed over a 10-foot
security fence with angled barb wire around 8:30 a.m. local time, according to
Peter Spurway, the airport’s communications vice president.
“She was immediately spotted by the
aircraft control tower. One of our folks was on the area and apprehended her.
She was in the airfield for 10 minutes. We had a small aircraft in the area and
the traffic control tower rerouted the aircraft,” said Spurway.
Spurway said the woman then told
police that she believed her husband was on an aircraft, and she was trying to
stop him.
“This is a very unusual type of
incident. I had never heard of such an incident before in my many years as an
officer,” said LeBlanc.
Police took the woman to the hospital for a medical assessment. According to
LeBlanc, she suffered minor injuries from scaling the fence.
The 37-year-old woman is a resident
of the Fall River, a small suburban community southwest of the airport. LeBlanc
said her husband was not a passenger on any plane and criminal charges are
unlikely.
The airport is conducting a full
review of their security measures, according to Spurway. “This is a very rare
occurrence. I have been here over eight years and this has never happened,” he
said.
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