( CNN ) -- Troops in Jamaica captured an armed man Monday who had barged onto a Canadian airliner , robbed passengers and held six crew members hostage , Jamaica Information Minister Daryl Vaz said . A hostage-taker commandeered a CanJet flight at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay , Jamaica . The crew members were not harmed , Vaz said . The hijacking suspect , described as a `` mentally challenged '' man in his 20s , had demanded that the Boeing 737 be flown to Cuba . The military captured him around 7 a.m. local time . The FBI helped Jamaican authorities handle the situation at the Jamaican government 's request , a U.S. government source told CNN . The CanJet flight from Halifax , Canada , had made a scheduled landing at Sangster International Airport in the Jamaican resort city of Montego Bay and was scheduled to continue to Santa Clara , Cuba . Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper , who was in Jamaica , told reporters that he planned to travel to Montego Bay to meet with Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding . Harper has been following the airplane security breach and may meet with the plane 's crew later today . `` The hijacking is that from a mentally challenged youngster and not anything that would be of concern in terms of an international incident , '' Vaz said . The suspect gained access to the plane Sunday night through the terminal in `` a breach of security '' that `` will be investigated , '' Deputy Police Commissioner Owen Ellington told CNN . The gunman fired a shot in the boarding bridge as he entered , said CanJet Airlines Vice President Kent Woodside . No one was hit . CanJet Flight 918 was carrying 174 passengers and eight crew members , Woodside said . All the passengers were Canadian , he said . The suspect took an undisclosed number of passengers and crew members hostage before releasing all the passengers and two crew members , said Elizabeth Scotton , a spokeswoman for the company that manages the airport . Two of the six crew members who remained inside the plane Monday locked themselves in the cockpit , Vaz said . The suspect 's father and Golding , who flew in by helicopter , were among those who negotiated with the gunman before his capture . The country 's minister of national security also was at hand . The released passengers were taken to a hotel , and the airport was shut down for a time , Vaz said . The airport reopened shortly after the standoff , Woodside said . A CanJet airliner was on its way to Jamaica , he said , to take passengers on to Cuba or back to Canada . Christian Gosselin , a passenger on the flight , told his father that the gunman demanded cash from the plane 's occupants . Vaz confirmed the account . `` The guy wanted to have all their money , '' said Gosselin 's father , Alphonse . `` He [ my son ] told his girlfriend to take all the money and just take her passport and credit card and put it in her back pocket . '' Christian Gosselin was part of a 25-person wedding party headed to Cuba . He and his girlfriend were released by the hostage-taker , and they spoke to his father in New Brunswick , Canada , while waiting for another flight . `` I did n't ask them too many questions ; I was more concerned for their safety , '' the father said . `` They were a bit shaken up . It was quite an experience . '' Another passenger , Brenda Grenier , called her husband and said the man apparently got aboard the plane as airport workers were loading bags . Grenier and her daughter were safe , her husband said by phone from his home in Nova Scotia , Canada . CNN 's Joyce Joseph , Janet DiGiacomo , Jessica Jordan , Saeed Ahmed and Mike Brooks contributed to this report .
NEW : FBI helped Jamaican authorities to end hijack attempt , Canada source says . Jamaican PM says he 'll be meeting with Canadian PM . Hostage-taker captured by military described as `` mentally challenged '' 737 flew in from Halifax , U.S. , when armed man boarded plane .