Although Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort Manager Evatt Bloomfield said most of the passengers who had been aboard the hijacked plane were sleeping, eating, or enjoying everything the resort had to offer, [Morris Gallant] could only think about how lucky he was. He had not slept or eaten since the incident, as he admitted to being "too shaken up" to do anything but "sit and thank God for sparing my and my wife's lives".

Gallant said he listened closely as a CanJet flight attendant asked the man behind him what he was doing. Within moments, Gallant said the man pulled out a gun and uttered to the flight attendant, "I want to go to America," while aiming the pistol at Gallant's face and back. The flight attendant then slowly proceeded to the cockpit and informed the pilot and crew that there was an armed man aboard the aeroplane, according to Gallant, who described Fray as "very calm for a person who was hijacking a plane".

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