How Canada’s first skyjacker boarded a Saint John flight and what happened next [Video]

A New Brunswick podcast is using its platform and the technologies of the modern age to reach a new audience with a dramatic story about Canada’s aviation history — from an era when airport security was as lax as getting on a bus.

Saint John: Nothing Happened Here, in a two-part series, brings the country’s first-ever skyjacking to light. 

“This is like a little nugget from the past, and it’s an interesting piece of Canadian history and … it was news for a day and kind of buried away,” Greg Marquis, a University of New Brunswick Saint John history professor and co-host of the podcast, said. 

It all started about a year ago, when Marquis came across a news clipping from Sept. 11, 1968, about an incident on Air Canada flight 303 from Saint John to Toronto.