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A Canadian flight is being investigated after maskless influencers posted videos while drinking and vaping on the plane

Jan 6, 2022, 03:07 IST
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Social media videos show maskless passengers partying and smoking on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight.Robert Smith/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images
  • A Canadian charter flight is being investigated after videos showed maskless passengers partying.
  • Clips show reality TV stars drinking and vaping during a December 30 Sunwing Airlines flight to Cancun.
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A Canadian charter flight is being investigated after maskless passengers posted Instagram videos of themselves drinking, vaping, and partying on the plane.

The clips — which were posted by Nathaniel Oliva-Naud and obtained by Journal de Montreal's Francis Pilon — show the passengers dancing in the aisle and passing around a bottle of Grey Goose vodka during the December 30 Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Cancun. Another clip shows a woman blowing smoke from her electronic cigarette into the camera.

Some of the passengers have appeared on Canadian reality TV shows, according to The Canadian Press. Pilon also noted on Twitter that some of the passengers were social media influencers.

Pilon reported that the charter's flight attendants avoided the cabin for most of the flight due to the unruly, maskless passengers.

Nathaniel Oliva-Naud did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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In a statement sent to Insider, Sunwing Airlines said "the behavior of a group of passengers was unruly and contravened several Canadian Aviation Regulations as well as public health regulations, prompting an investigation by Sunwing Airlines' security department and an initial notification from Sunwing Airlines to Transport Canada."

The airline also canceled the group's flight back to Canada — which was scheduled for Wednesday — because the group wouldn't accept all the airline's safety terms and conditions, according to the statement from Sunwing Airlines.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has since spoken out against the video.

"It's a slap in the face to see people putting themselves, their fellow citizens and airline workers at risk by being completely irresponsible," he said on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press.

"Like Canadians who have seen those videos, I'm extremely frustrated," he added. "This is a situation Transport Canada takes extremely seriously and we are following up."

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The Canadian Press reported that 111 Private Club — which bills itself as "an exclusive private group (by invitation only)" — took credit for the New Year's trip to Mexico and called it the "best event of the year."

The Canadian Press said 111 Private Club also posted a screenshot of a newspaper article about the flight, captioning it with "we made the news."

James William Awad — who appears to run the company — has since posted about the incident on Twitter, writing "a simple party on a plane did all this buzz." James William Awad did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

In a joint statement sent to Insider, Canada's Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra, Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, and Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino said that the passengers could face fines up to $5,000 CAD ($3,937 USD) for each individual violation.

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