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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A plane heading from Los Angeles to Tokyo turned back because an unauthorized person was on board.
KABC-TV reports All Nippon Airways Flight 175 left Los Angeles International Airport around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, but it never arrived at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport.
Model Chrissy Teigen, who was on the plane, tweeted that the flight made a U-turn about four hours into the 11-hour flight.
Teigen says passengers were told that someone had managed to board the ANA flight with a United Airlines ticket.
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
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
LAX —> LAX flight complete. Flight time, 8 hours and 20 minutes.
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
The plane landed at LAX around 7:30 p.m. after eight hours in the air.
Teigen says police interviewed passengers who were sitting near the person.
Airport police tell KABC-TV that there was a “mix-up” that’s been resolved, and the flight has been rescheduled to depart Wednesday.
Teigen managed to make light of the situation through her tweets.
I’m in a room with water and a tv! The government is using real housewives to keep me quiet !!!!!! https://t.co/ypPVjAF85C
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
Her last update was that she and husband John Legend boarded a plane which played Star Wars music. NVG
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