All of the 169 passengers from a hijacked Canadian plane in Jamaica have been released unharmed, but the crew are still being held, news reports said on Monday, quoting the CanJet airline.

Passengers were reportedly taken hostage when they were boarding a CanJet flight from Scangster International Airport in Montego Bay to Canada late Sunday when the security breach occurred, said an earlier report by CNN.

A shot had been fired, but no one was hit, CNN quoted Radio Jamaica as saying.

Police and security personnel were handling the incident, the report said, adding that negotiations were underway.

A passenger, Brenda Grenier, called her husband and said a man apparently had sneaked aboard the plane and had taken hostages, according to CNN.

Grenier and her daughter were safe, her husband told reporters by phone from his home in Nova Scotia, Canada.

(CCTV, Xinhua News Agency April 21, 2009)