8-Hour Flight To Nowhere: Chrissy Teigen Live-Tweets Flight Mishap With Wrong Passenger
The Legends have landed! Pregnant model Chrissy Teigen and husband John Legend have finally arrived in Tokyo after an eight-hour "flight to nowhere."
'Flight To Nowhere'
Teigen and Legend boarded an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight to the Japanese capital from Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 26 to ring in the New Year. However, four hours into their journey to Tokyo, their flight took a U-turn and they found themselves back in LA eight hours later thanks to an unauthorized passenger.
The Sports Illustrated model, who is expecting her second baby with the "All of Me" hitmaker, shared the experience with her 9.2 million-plus followers on the micro-blogging platform in a series of live tweets.
"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," she tweeted. "Why ... why do we all gotta go back, I do not know."
I won’t be able to sleep until I know how this person figured out they were on the wrong flight. That’s all I ask. 150 people have been majorly inconvenienced, please, just tell me
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
Why did we all get punished for this one person’s mistake? Why not just land in Tokyo and send the other person back? How is this the better idea, you ask? We all have the same questions. — christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
'Unauthorized Passenger'
The flight, was made to head back to Los Angeles after an unauthorized passenger had boarded the flight.
Among the 226 passengers on board were two brothers, one of whom had boarded the wrong flight. The individual had a boarding pass for a United Airlines flight to Tokyo but boarded the ANA flight with his brother, who was issued the correct boarding pass, according to TSA Spokesman, Mike England.
The ANA flight took off from Los Angeles International Airport at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday and arrived back in Los Angeles at about 7:30 p.m.
The unauthorized passenger managed to make it pass several security checkpoints with his sibling in tow and arrived at the terminal without anyone realizing that he was entering the wrong flight. Perhaps, it was because the two brothers had very similar names, as one law enforcement official pointed out.
It is the airline employees' responsibility to make sure the passengers are carrying the correct boarding passes for the flight.
Teigen was disgruntled at first since she and her hubby, along with the other 224 passengers on board, had just spent eight hours on a flight and were still in Los Angeles. However, she tried to make fun of the situation on Twitter.
They keep saying the person had a United ticket. We are on ANA. So basically the boarding pass scanner is just a beedoop machine that makes beedoop noises that register to nowhere
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
ANA later issued an apology to all the passengers and stated that the plane was made to return to LA as part of the airline's security protocol.
We apologize to all of our passengers on Flight 175; we failed to deliver the customer service we strive for. Thank you all for your comments and allowing us to connect, learn and serve you better. We welcome ongoing feedback to understand how we can work to make this right. — All Nippon Airways (@FlyANA_official) December 27, 2017
