Speaking of "coerced confessions", the 2 Michaels were immediately released.
Yip, their is a rogueish honour to admitting that they were hostages and getting it over with without delay or fuss.
Instead the USA has to go through all this undignified confession theatre; its beneath a country with as proud a history as theirs.
The person isn't in US airspace. They're being held in Canada and US had an ongoing extradition request with Canada. All detailed in TFA.
It's pretty unlikely that Canada will fall for this sort of thing the second time. So once they are clear of US airspace they are pretty safe, but not entirely safe of course...