An­na-Lisa Paul

The Cana­di­an who was ground­ed in Trinidad for two days af­ter he was black­list­ed by sev­er­al air­lines is set to be re­unit­ed with his fi­ancee to­mor­row. Jacques Her­oux left T&T around 4.30 pm yes­ter­day on board Pana­ma's Co­pa Air­lines flight bound for Pana­ma, en route to Brazil.

Her­oux, 48, of Three Rivers, Que­bec, Cana­da, plead­ed guilty to dis­or­der­ly con­duct and was fined $8,000 on Tues­day when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Adri­an Dar­manie in the Ari­ma Sec­ond Court. How­ev­er, af­ter his court ap­pear­ance, he was un­able to get a flight out of Trinidad be­cause he was black­list­ed by sev­er­al air­lines.

He spent a third night at the Palms Ho­tel, Trinci­ty, on Wednes­day but got a flight af­ter an over­ture by his at­tor­ney Fa­reed Ali to the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion to help him get to Brazil. Her­oux is a tech­ni­cian with Nunav­ick Nick­el Min­ing project. He ap­peared on Mon­day charged with dis­or­der­ly con­duct while aboard AA 221 on No­vem­ber 24, en route from Cana­da to Brazil and was grant­ed $40,000 own bail.

Her­oux's be­hav­iour around 5 am forced the pi­lot to make an emer­gency land­ing at Pi­ar­co Air­port, where he was "kicked off" the flight and tak­en in­to cus­tody by Ari­ma po­lice. On Mon­day, he 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 to calm his nerves. Since the ex­pe­ri­ence, he has vowed to stay away from al­co­hol.