Luka Rocco Magnotta, handcuffed and shackled, sat quietly on a military plane bound for Canada, in part because no commercial airline was willing to transport the first-degree murder suspect from Berlin.
"We had been asking different airliners and no one was extremely happy to transport him," Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière told CBC News.
The international transfer of Magnotta, who was accompanied on the military transport by six Montreal police officers, highlights a number of factors and challenges that law enforcement officials face when transporting a prisoner by air.
The Defence Department provided the plane on short notice, and Magnotta was flown from Germany to Quebec's Mirabel airport on Monday, in a tightly controlled extradition operation ....