The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Teigen live-tweets ‘flight to nowhere’

- By Stephanie Merry

In a year filled with major in-flight meltdowns, model Chrissy Teigen chronicled yet another airplane mishap - although she managed to keep her sense of humor about the whole thing.

She and her husband, musician John Legend, planned to go to Tokyo for New Year’s, and they were headed that way from Los Angeles on an All Nippon Airways flight Tuesday when, four hours into the ride, the plane abruptly changed course and returned to LAX.

Teigen, who is pregnant with her second child, livetweete­d the whole experience, including the airline’s reason for the about-face: A passenger ended up on the wrong flight.

Teigen tweeted: “a flying first for me: 4 hours into an 11 hour flight and we are turning around because we have a passenger who isn’t supposed to be on this plane. Why… why do we all gotta go back, I do not know”

She was remarkably good-natured about the whole experience and even expressed sympathy for the (apparently accidental) stowaway, who “must be mortified,” she wrote.

“Lmao after all this I will have spent 8 hours on a flight to nowhere. Like we were all just havin a great time up here flyin in the sky watching gran torino time to go home now”

According to a statement from All Nippon, “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.”

Once the flight returned to LAX, passengers had to deplane and some were questioned by police, according to Teigen.

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