A small stolen aircraft ground flights and forced diversions for 39 minutes while flying above Vancouver international Airport. Shaheer Cassim landed the Cessa 172 safely before he was arrested by local police.

A stolen private plane caused a temporary shutdown of the airspace over Vancouver International Airport, one the busiest in Canada, on Tuesday. We do have an aircraft that has been hijacked and is in the vicinity of the airport,

A man has been charged with hijacking, one day after an incident which saw flights grounded at Vancouver's airport for a little under an hour.