{"id":389919,"date":"2026-03-20T13:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-canada-aeroplan-fraud-norad-fighter-jet-intercept\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:44:37","slug":"air-canada-intercept-stolen-aeroplan-miles-trigger-norad-fighter-jet-response-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=389919","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada Intercept: Stolen Aeroplan Miles Trigger NORAD Fighter Jet Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A transatlantic <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254978\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-canada\/\"  >Air Canada<\/a><\/span> flight on Wednesday took a sudden and dramatic turn after it was intercepted by Canadian and US fighter jets over the North Atlantic air corridor. NORAD scrambled both Canadian CF-18s and US F-16s \u2014 as well as a supporting KC-135 refueling tanker \u2014 to escort the Boeing 777 after it was discovered that a passenger onboard was flying using stolen air miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Canadian fighters escorted the Boeing 777-300ER to Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1804,940,396,476,713,628,1553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aeroplan","category-air-canada","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-canada","category-fighter-jets","category-theft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389920,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389919\/revisions\/389920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}