For most, flying eight hours and landing exactly where you took off would be an inconvenience. A nightmare.
But, for model-come-detective Chrissy Teigen, it was an opportunity to uncover hidden identities and expose an international government conspiracy… well, something like that.
The 32-year-old was travelling with her husband, singer John Legend, and their daughter, one-year-old Luna, from Los Angeles to Tokyo for the holidays when their plane was forced to turn around mid-flight because an “unauthorised” passenger was on board.
Teigen live-tweeted the whole experience and it goes from questioning the effectiveness of the “badoop” boarding pass scanners, to the government locking people in rooms and dulling their minds with Real Housewives.
Utterly genius.
It starts like this:
a flying first for me: 4 hours into an 11 hour flight and we are turning around because we have a passenger who isn’t supposed to be on this plane. Why…why do we all gotta go back, I do not know
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
Top Comments
It’s very suspicious.
I know in Australia, at least, the crew greeting passengers must eyeball your boarding pass for the very purpose of seeing the airline & destination is correct for the flight.
Then they’ll direct you towards your seat.
How do you get 4 hours in before you realise you're on the wrong flight? Don't they make an announcement at the start? "This is flight 123 from LA to Tokyo" kind of thing? Didn't they have to show their boarding pass to someone at some point? So many questions.
I flew a couple of US domestic flights in the past month. On one occasion the automatic boarding pass scanner broke down, so we pretty much hopped on the plane without being checked (flight attendants were very casual about ensuring everyone was actually boarding the correct flight!). Check in was similarly chaotic and full of potential loopholes. The only thing they seem keen and consistent on doing is putting you through those whole body scanners.
Wow, that's nuts! All the fuss they make about airport security, and they just let anyone on...