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Woman Falls Asleep On Flight To Paris, Wakes Up In Pakistan
A woman on a Paris-bound flight fell asleep and woke up when the plane landed back in her starting point of Lahore, Pakistan. What's more, the plane not only stopped in France, but also touched down in Italy before completing the journey.
Express News, a Pakistani television news channel, first reported about the sleepy passenger, described as a middle-aged French woman who is married to a Pakistani. Her relatives are infuriated that nobody from Pakistan International Airways (PIA) bothered to wake her when she reached Paris.
Upon returning back to Lahore, she had completed a 7,700-mile round trip that took 18 hours.
"It is a passenger's responsibility to check about the destination and disembark when the plane arrives at the particular airport," a representative from the airline told Agence France-Presse.
The airline, who believes a French subcontractor is to blame, has since promised to take the woman back to Paris free of charge and set up a committee to investigate how the crew failed to notice the woman during a two-hour stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Photo by Don Fulano, flickr.
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The airline, who believes a French subcontractor is to blame, has since promised to take the woman back to Paris free of charge and set up a committee to investigate how the crew failed to notice the woman during a two-hour stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Photo by Don Fulano, flickr.
[Thanks, Imran3000!]
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
A Sep 1st 2012 5:05PM
Okay.. Put it this way.. she could have fallen asleep just before reaching Paris and would have waked up after the plan has flown again (or might have continued to sleep during a stop over too) so she wouldn't help but to come back to Lahore..!!
or she might have missed Lahore so much during the flight that she pretended to sleep so that she can come back..!!
The crew should have checked the boarding passes and made sure that they have the same number of boarding passes as the number of passengers in the plane..!!