HALIFAX – No charges are expected against a woman who scaled a barbed-wire fence surrounding Halifax’s airport and ran onto the tarmac Sunday in an attempt to prevent a plane from taking off, RCMP in Nova Scotia said.

The 37-year-old woman reportedly believed her partner was onboard an aircraft and was trying to stop its departure, said RCMP Sgt. Al LeBlanc.

“It’s very unusual. I’ve never seen such an ******** in my many years of policing,” said LeBlanc in an interview. “Thankfully this lady was apprehended very quickly.”

Officers discovered through their ************* that the woman’s partner was not on any plane, Leblanc added.

Peter Spurway, a spokesman for the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, said control tower officials spotted the woman almost immediately after she jumped the three-metre fence and made it onto the airfield, around 8:30 a.m on Sunday.

She was on the tarmac for a few minutes, he said.

“I’ve been there eight years and this is a first for me,” said Spurway, describing the ******** as rare. “It is not an easy thing to scale that fence.”

She may have sustained some minor ******** on the barbed wire, he added.

While the woman did not come into contact with any aircraft, air traffic controllers did reroute a small plane taxiing nearby as a safety precaution.

The woman was detained by an airport employee before RCMP officers arrived on the scene.

Spurway said the ******** had virtually no effect on airport operations.

Besides a three-metre, barbed-wire fence, the airport’s perimeter is protected by video cameras, infrared sensors and motion detectors.

However, the situation did give airport officials cause for reflection.

“We’ll take a look at this ******** and see if there’s anything we need to adjust to maintain the security of the airfield,” said Spurway.

LeBlanc said the woman was taken to hospital for a medical assessment.