Everyone talking about that story this week how the plan was forced to turn around and more than 200 people have to put off the start of their vacations.

After the man stood up and announced mid flight, he'd just come back from China and he wasn't feeling well.

Well, he's been charged with mischief, and now he's speaking out and apologizing.

As he told our Farum Murali, This video, posted on a Toronto social media site, shows James Po talk being escorted off a plane well being jeered by passengers.

Got your camera, your wound?

It's the aftermath.

What Po Talk says was supposed to be a joke stood up.

I just returned from a flight from Hunan Province.

Um, I might have said this is the capital for Corona virus And then I said, I don't feel too well.

What made you want to do that?

Well, it was It was really just to create a viral video.

West Jet pilot didn't find the joke funny.

The crews segregated him as a precaution on the plane was turned around 240 passengers who were supposed to end their date in Jamaica ended it here instead at Toronto's Pearson International Airport that we have a lot of back in Toronto.

We were all very frustrated.

Why would you think that would be funny to make a video like this?

I guess it was a shocking, ah type of thing, you know, being able to think about it after it's It's definitely something that's not joked about.

Once I found out that they were turning the plane around is when I felt the remorse, I felt guilty.

So now I'm thinking to myself, Well, I think I just ruined 250 other people's travelers plans so that you know, that that hit me.

That bothered me.

If he had a message for those people, what would that be?

I am extremely sorry.

I'm completely remorseful to everybody that I damaged their plans.

That wasn't the only flight that had to be canceled because of this prank.

The trip from Montego Bay back to Toronto the same plane was supposed to take was also scraps.

We reached out to West Jet to see if it planned to take action would only say the matter is now before the courts far.

Murali CBC NEWS TORONTO You heard James Pataki Telafar in the course of their conversation that he had been on a flight he'd been recently in China's Hunan Province.

Well, of course, the epicenter of the outbreak is the city of Wuhan.

Which is it?

Hoob, a province of just, perhaps conflating the two.

But we just want to sort it out for you not in fact, the right location mentioned there.