Air France flight to U.S. diverted to Montreal over concerns of possible Ebola virus exposure on board

Why did they come here, go back or go to your destination

This took a long time to be picked up by local media. It was first reported on Reddit by some passengers on the plane and by a journalist on Twitter:

https://x.com/TVreporter/status/2057232162634535108

What a stupid authority that allows it to land in Canada. I hate the US but sometimes they make more sense than here in Canada

Why the fuck is this our problem? Send it back to France

According to flight tracking platform FlightAware, the flight landed in Montreal at 5:15 p.m., and the passenger in question was escorted off the plane. The flight was then allowed to continue to its destination in Detroit, where it landed just after 8 p.m.

On May 18, the CDC and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a 30-day travel ban on non-U.S. passport holders from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Uganda, as well as screenings at airports and other points of entry for all travelers who departed from airports in those countries or have visited them in the last 21 days.

In a statement, Air France confirmed that a Congolese passenger on board was denied entry into the United States.

Well if this shit gets outta control like Covid at least we know everyone will work together to stop its spread……

Oh yeah, it will get really messy.

Just say NO. Under no obligation to take the US’s Ebola plane. Think they are gonna “thank” us? They are laughing at us b/c now the risk is inside our borders, not theirs

Here’s a radical take. Ignore the troll farmers. We are Canadian we do this because it’s the right thing to do! We take care of those people we get them well and send them home with a story to tell their friends. That’s how we win. With quiet dignity.

Don’t doom scroll this topic, just listen to the disease experts. 
I don’t think the discussion should be just what will be the next pandemic,  but rather this should all be an awakening to the recent massive cuts to disease monitoring at the federal level,  like with CFIA and Environment and Climate Change Canada, with staffing and program cuts forcing less surveillance and testing, in spite of those scientists and working groups having very strong interest and desire to do this surveillance.

Dumping ground for everyone’s problems I guess.

F1 weekend and Habs playoff game Monday, it’s already going to be a clusterfuck. What great timing.

This country and the world are so idiotic. Canada just gets walked over, does nothing to protect itself or its citizens.
Known outbreak of a life threatening disease, shutdown fucking travel to and from that place. Put travel restrictions in place, like immediately.
Before covid officially hit I remember seeing it on the news, and how serious it sounded in China …. If travel to and from the affected area was stopped immediately, maybe it could have been contained to a relatively small area…. It just seems like common sense.
Now this fucking Ebola .

Well….fuck 🫤

Under ICAO and IASTA rules, any country is allowed to deny landing permission, but not to deny transit overflight or emergency landings. So the US was within its rights to deny the landing, and Canada would have been as well. But had both countries denied it, the flight would have had to land anyway due to not having enough fuel to get to any other country (since St. Pierre and Miquelon lacks any runway long enough for a 777-200).

However, neither the US nor Canada, nor any other liberal democracy, make a parctice of arbitrarily denying landing rights without legal reason. The US has impmeneted entry restrictions as a response to the ebola crisis and Canada hasn’t. So Canada had no reason to deny the landing. This is not an oversight or mistake on Canada’s part. Canada is following WHO guidance, which currently recommends against member states implementing travel bans.

If you are looking for a way to interpret this event through the lens of Canadian populist nationalism, saying that Canada should also close its borders doesn’t quite work, because you’re implying not only that the US policy is correct, but that the US _got there first_, which doesn’t make Canada look good in comparison. The better line to take is that the US is acting arbitrarily and showing disrespect for international norms, and thank God for freedom-loving Canada, because otherwise those poor passengers would have had nowhere to go.

NO! Land that shit in the land of the ignorant!

Hantabola virus coming in hot!

The US Border Services screwed up and now they made it our problem? Why was the plane allowed to be diverted to Canada?

Why would we do anything that puts Canada at risk too sis America right now. They’ve chosen a president who’s position on Canada and how he will treat long established treaties and allies is exceptionally clear – he’ll screw everything and everyone just to steal another dollar to add to his billions. Cut America off and let them suffer the consequences of their choices.