Man Falls Asleep On Plane, Wakes Up Alone, Locked Inside

A man who fell asleep flying from
Louisiana woke up at his layover in
Houston, inside a dark, empty and
locked plane.
Tom Wagner says that the United
Express crew left him in the plane, even
after he alerted authorities through his
girlfriend, for more than 30 minutes,
according to ABC News.
The fiasco started on Friday when he
fell asleep in a window seat near the
back of the airplane. When everyone
deplaned at the layover, nobody woke
Wagner up. He woke up in a pitch-black
and cold cabin, and the aircraft doors
were locked.
Luckily, his cell phone wasn’t dead.
“I called my girlfriend, and she thought
I was crazy. I said, ‘Debbie I’m locked
on the plane,’” he told ABC. “I said,
‘I’m telling you the truth. You better go
somewhere and get me off this plane.”
Half an hour later, workers boarded the
aircraft and rescued Wagner. He told
KVEO that they wanted him to keep the
incident quiet, and put him up in a
nearby hotel and gave him a $250 flight
voucher to make the ordeal go away.
United Express maintained that its crew
did a post-flight walkthrough and
issued this statement to the Examiner: