Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter jets perform a fly-over at start of Montreal Alouettes versus Hamilton Tiger Cats Canadian Football League game in Montreal Sunday Sept. 7, 2014. Photograph by: John Mahoney , The Gazette
MONTREAL — Plateau Mont-Royal residents say they were alarmed and frightened by the sight and the sound of two fighter jets that flew over downtown Montreal and Molson Stadium Sunday afternoon.
The aircraft were part of the Alouettes pregame show, but their appearance so low in the sky startled people in their homes and others who were outside enjoying the day’s nice weather.
“This is so irresponsible,” said Jeanne Schoenwandt, who heard the deafening noise as she was cleaning her home. “People don’t associate this with football and with everything going on in the Middle East, it is inappropriate. She said several of her neighbors came outside of their homes to find out what was going on.
Several Montrealers took to Twitter to inquire about why fighter jets were flying so low close to downtown. Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant, who was on duty Sunday afternoon, said he also wondered what the noise was before learning it was part of pregame festivities.
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it was just awful. another one of harper's attempts at militarizing canada. pathetic.
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