CTV.ca news report: (Sheds light on why the Captain left the airplane)
Officers entered hijacked plane through cockpit
The armed gunman who hijacked a CanJet plane in Jamaica was captured after tactical officers used a cockpit window to board the aircraft, CTV News has learned.
The first officer was the only one in the locked cockpit when members of the Jamaican Defence Force moved in to capture the gunman.
"They were able to open the window, get him (the pilot) out and put themselves in," CTV's Rosemary Thompson reported Tuesday from Jamaica.
"They were able to do this without the knowledge of the hijacker."
Thompson said sources confirmed that the officers were able to lure the hijacker to the cockpit, which he thought still contained members of the flight crew.
"Based on his behaviour, we assumed that he thought that there were members of the flight crew inside the cockpit, because he continued to knock on the door, demanding that the door be opened so that the aircraft would take off," said Jamaican National Security Minister Dwight Nelson....