New details of a potential motive for man charged in alleged plane hijacking in B.C.
Shaheer Cassim has been charged with one count of hijacking after an incident that saw flights grounded at Vancouver's airport for a little under an hour. Police have said the suspect acted with an ideological motive to disrupt airspace. A Facebook profile of a man with the same name that lists him as holding a commercial pilot's licence and having worked on Vancouver Island makes religious references and describes himself as both a "Messiah" and as someone "sent by Allah" to save the world from climate change.