A worker moves luggage trolleys outside Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Dec. 31, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
A conversation involving a Vancouver International Airport air traffic controller suggests the alleged hijacking of a small aircraft that temporarily stopped landings on Tuesday may have been motivated by “some type of protest.”
The unidentified controller in the air-traffic audio recording tells the pilot of a grounded aircraft that a Cessna is circling about 500 feet over the airport and the situation could last “a couple hours.”
