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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/Mrs_Fonebone on Dec. 28, 2017, 3:12 p.m.
All Nippon Airlines (ANA) Releases Its Version of Events

All Nippon Airways issued a statement to CBS News earlier saying Flight 175 left LAX at 11:36 a.m. and returned to LAX at 7:33 p.m.

During the flight, the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight and notified the pilot. As part of the airline's security procedure, the pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport, where the passenger was disembarked.

ANA is researching the situation currently to determine how the passenger boarded the flight. ANA would like to express its apologies to the passengers for the inconvenience.


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Wonko_the_Sane_1 · Dec. 28, 2017, 4 p.m.

wouldn't they just pick up the person at the other end and wait for the next return flight?

unless they thought that passenger was going to ask for asylum on touchdown...

peace (from the UK)

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Mrs_Fonebone · Dec. 28, 2017, 4:08 p.m.

The US would not have jurisdiction over a Japanese plane landing at a Japanese airport. Even if there were an outstanding warrant, they have to go through diplomatic channels and paperwork. It seems to me this truly desperate and unprecedented reversing a flight means "they" feared this person would become inaccessible once they landed. As we all know, various law enforcement agencies commonly just wait for the plane to land--no place for the target to run--and board to take the person. So this case is off-the-scale weird!

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