Mistakes on a plane for BBC’s Frank

BBC reporter Frank Gardner, who is disabled, was again left on a plane, unable to get off because no one at Heathrow was around to help him.

A spokesman blamed it on the “summer demand”.

That’s fair enough, because who could ever know in advance that more people might go on holiday in the summer?

Some people have been left for several hours like this, so it must be possible that some disabled people never get off at all.

They just live on a plane, spending some days on a runway in Brazil before taking off to Mexico and then on to Turkey and Iceland, until winter when someone’s not too busy.