Two male prisoners in Saint-Jerome, Quebec, Canada, who escaped on Sunday their jail James Bond style, are now back in jail by early Monday.

Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 36, and Danny Provencal, 33, climbed up a rove into a hovering helicopter and escaped on Sunday at about 2:20 p.m. from a prison located 37 miles northwest of Montreal.

The chopper appeared not to be a part of the daring escape plan but was allegedly hijacked.

The Quebec police tracked the helicopter on Sunday afternoon at Mont-Tremblant, located 53 miles from the facility, and the pilot was still on board. He was taken to a local hospital and is being treated for shock.

By early Monday, the Quebec police had arrested four people about 30 miles not of the Saint-Jerome jail, two of them were the escapees. Mr Hudon-Barbeau initially established a security perimeter around a building which he barricaded, but he eventually was arrested. Mr Provencal surrendered peacefully by Monday morning.

Mr Hudon-Barbeau was jailed on two firearm-related charges as part of a double-murder investigation in the French-speaking Canadian province.

Yves Galarneau, the correctional services manager who has oversight over the Saint-Jerome facility, admitted lack of security measures at the prison to prevent daring escape methods such as the use of helicopters.

The two were apparently inspired by the success of helicopter escape scenes in action movies and TV shows such as those in James Bond's For Your Eyes Only

The A Team

MacGyver

videogame Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

and real-life Greece's most wanted man, Vassilis Palaiokostas, and Albanian convict Alket Rizaj, who escaped from a top security prison in Athens via a chopper.

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