The crew of a Pivot Airlines plane was detained in the Dominican Republic in April after millions of dollars worth of cocaine were found aboard. The Canadian crew are finally allowed to come home.
CBC NewsThe crew of a Pivot Airlines plane was detained in the Dominican Republic in April after millions of dollars worth of cocaine were found aboard.
The ordeal began in early April of this year, when the five-person crew of a Pivot Airlines flight from Calgary to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic found a strange bag aboard the aircraft and reported it to authorities. Crew members including two pilots, two flight attendants and a mechanic have been forbidden from leaving the country ever since.Canadian flight crew detained in the Dominican Republic appeals for helpFive Pivot Airlines crew members are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help after they were detained in the Dominican Republic in April for notifying police about millions of dollars worth of cocaine found aboard their plane.
"Earlier today, paperwork was filed to free the five Pivot crew members who have been detained in the Dominican Republic for 220 days after reporting suspected contraband on their aircraft," Pivot CEO Eric Edmondson told CBC News in a statement.
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