Hostage situation develops at Jamaican airport

Per CNN, "An armed man released all passengers but continued to hold five crew members hostage early Monday inside a charter plane at a Jamaican airport, officials said."

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding flew to the scene at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay to assist in the negotiations, according to CNN. The plane was from a Canadian airline, CanJet.

Jamaican journalists tweeted additional context about the developing story.

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   JaGirl2dworl (Kingston, Jamaica) @donlemoncnn NO..this cannot be happening here in JA. I hope its resolved quickly because plane hijacking is EXTREMELY rare here. Shocked ! 20 Apr 2009 from web in reply to donlemoncnn
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   JaGirl2dworl (Kingston, Jamaica) @donlemoncnn The Canadian PM is supposed to be visiting the island. Not sure if there is any relation to this incident. 20 Apr 2009 from web in reply to donlemoncnn
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   JaGirl2dworl (Kingston, Jamaica) Speculation on radio about whether the hijacker is Jamaican or a foreigner, but we all can't figure out how he got past security with a gun. 20 Apr 2009 from web
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   Sarahjah (Jamaica) an eye witness who is on the tarmac right now just told me it is a deportee who had many ids. says he wanted to go back to canada 20 Apr 2009 from web
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   MykalCushnie (Kingston, Jamaica) @oblessa nite im capturing footage so no bed fo me 20 Apr 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to oblessa

Others in Jamaica used Twitter to relay information on the incident.

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   DatMad (Kingston, Jamaica) Terrorist inna jamaica to bludclaaat!!!!! Read di news pon http://datmad.com 20 Apr 2009 from TweetDeck
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   thatcoolkidsean (Kingston, Jamaica) UPDATE: Hijacker identified http://tinyurl.com/dnlenv 20 Apr 2009 from web
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   RachieBabieja (Kingston, Jamaica) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/20/jamaica.security/index.html DI PM Negotiating Now!! 20 Apr 2009 from web
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   hallsoflearning (Kingston, Jamaica) cnn video here...large up NikkiZ RT @DivaNikkiZ: here is the report... Watch it! http://tinyurl.com/cz2xn6 20 Apr 2009 from TweetDeck

Hostage situation develops at Jamaican airport