Posted on 05/20/2026 7:42:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Airport was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from a country currently affected by an Ebola outbreak was allowed to board.
According to a Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson:
Air France boarded a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo in error on a flight to the United States. Due to entry restrictions put in place to reduce the risk of the Ebola virus, the passenger should not have boarded the plane. CBP took decisive action and prohibited the flight carrying that traveler from landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, and instead, diverted to Montreal, Canada. CBP, in coordination with CDC, is taking the necessary measures to protect public health and reduce the risk of Ebola disease introduction into the United States.
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The Fauci Travel Agency.....
There are no accidents. To many “mistakes and coincidences.”
Really need to first assume such accidents are malicious until proven otherwise
“Air France boarded a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo in error“
Yeah oops, right.
Should have let them land in Detroit.............
Quarantine everyone on board, and if anyone tests positive, burn the froggy plane.
What if there is an Ebola outbreak there now, what would that feel like?
Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't want it in the US, but it doesn't belong in Montreal either.
IMO they should have refueled the plane and sent it back to where it came from.
The carrier has long been called “Air Chance”...
Was the passenger a cousin of Eric Duncan?
I don’t get it – – how did they just figure out in the middle of a flight that someone had Ebola? And why would they let anyone fly with it, whether they would land in DC, Montreal or anywhere?
They shouldn’t have even let the guy near an airport with that type of disease!
WTH??
Wait until they start flowing in for the World Cup.
The Montreal airport is only 43 miles from the US border.
EC
No one on the plane tested positive, (from my reading) they were from a country we had restricted flights from. It is possible the passenger didn’t know of the ban on US travel, but the airline certainly should have known.
Was there a little money exchanged at the ticket counter so he could slip by?
The passenger was removed before the plane got to Detroit, but how many on the plane did he/she infect before the removal and who went on the Detroit?
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