Flair passengers had a scare when Montreal landing was aborted before D.C. crash [Video]

A Flair Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet aborted a landing at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport on Wednesday after a private jet unexpectedly remained on a runway where it was preparing to land.

The incident, which unnerved Flair’s passengers, occurred just hours before 67 people were killed at Reagan Washington National Airport when a military helicopter struck an American Airlines regional passenger jet mid-air in the worst U.S. aviation disaster in more than a decade.

The Montreal events were confirmed Friday by officials at Flair Airlines, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and NAV Canada, the private non-profit corporation that manages air traffic control at airports across the country and 18 million km of Canadian airspace.

The two government agencies and the airline said the sequence of Montreal events did not represent a “near-miss” situation and passengers were at no time in danger.

On the contrary, they said what happened in Montreal …