been due to leave for Toronto.

The Air Canada flight, due out of Bermuda at 1.25 p.m., stayed on the airport tarmac after the pilot reported radio problems.

Local engineers made repairs and experts cleared the flight to take off at 7 a.m. today.

Passengers stayed overnight at the Hamilton Princess and the Marriott Castle Harbour hotels.

Air Canada officials said last night that latest flight information registers showed today's incoming flight from Toronto was still scheduled to arrive on time at 12.30 p.m.

High-tech system grinds to a halt The airport's high-tech immigration clearance system ground to a halt after a piece of paper jammed in it.

FastGate was introduced at the airport last year when technology giant IBM chose Bermuda as a test site for the system which can process passengers in 15 seconds through the use of biometrics and ATM-type technology.

But it was not working for most of yesterday morning, reported a Government spokesman, and may have gone down the day before without being properly reported.