A day af­ter he ap­peared in court and was fined $8,000 for dis­or­der­ly con­duct while aboard an Amer­i­can Air­lines flight, Cana­di­an Jacques Her­oux re­mained stuck in Trinidad af­ter he was black­list­ed by sev­er­al air­lines and de­nied a flight back home. Her­oux, 48, of Three Rivers, Que­bec, Cana­da, spent a sec­ond night at the Palms Ho­tel, Trinci­ty, yes­ter­day. He will re­turn to the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port this morn­ing, in the hope of se­cur­ing a flight back to Cana­da.

The T&T Guardian learnt that the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion was ap­proached yes­ter­day to help Her­oux leave the coun­try. Her­oux reap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Adri­an Dar­manie in the Ari­ma Sec­ond Court yes­ter­day, rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Fa­reed Ali. He ap­peared on Mon­day charged with dis­or­der­ly con­duct while aboard AA 221, en route from Cana­da to Brazil, on No­vem­ber 24, and was grant­ed $40,000 own bail.

Her­oux's sub­se­quent be­hav­iour around 5 am on No­vem­ber 24, forced the pi­lot to make an emer­gency land­ing at Pi­ar­co, where Her­oux was kicked off the flight and tak­en in­to cus­tody by Ari­ma po­lice. On Mon­day, Her­oux told the mag­is­trate he was on his way to meet his fi­ancee Adri­ana De Souza in Brazil and was ner­vous about the flight, so he drank ap­prox­i­mate­ly 40 ounces of De­war's scotch whisky to calm his nerves.

His in­tox­i­cat­ed be­hav­iour alarmed the flight crew af­ter Her­oux be­came un­ruly and bel­liger­ent to­wards the flight at­ten­dants. Or­der­ing him to pay the fine forth­with yes­ter­day, the mag­is­trate stood the mat­ter down to al­low Her­oux to make the pay­ment or in de­fault, he would serve six weeks' hard labour.

Asked if he had learnt any­thing from this ex­pe­ri­ence, Her­oux vowed to stay away from al­co­hol in the fu­ture. He was charged with vi­o­lat­ing Sec­tion 60 of the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Act, which car­ries a max­i­mum penal­ty of a fine of up to $25,000 and a year in prison.