You think you’re having a holiday travel nightmare? Try switching places with Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.
The couple, who are expecting their second child, found themselves on an eight-hour and twenty minute flight from Los Angeles International Airport to, well, Los Angeles International Airport. The All Nippon Airways Flight 175, which was originally bound for Tokyo, turned around over the Pacific four hours into the journey after a passenger was found on board who wasn’t supposed to be there.
Teigen immediately took to Twitter to share humorous minute-by-minute updates with her followers.
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
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
I won’t be able to sleep until I know how this person figured out they were on the wrong flight. That’s all I ask. 150 people have been majorly inconvenienced, please, just tell me
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
They keep saying the person had a United ticket. We are on ANA. So basically the boarding pass scanner is just a beedoop machine that makes beedoop noises that register to nowhere
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
I’m in a room with water and a tv! The government is using real housewives to keep me quiet !!!!!! https://t.co/ypPVjAF85C
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
Taking off!!! Please don’t be the same menu please don’t be the same menu
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
Authorities confirmed the incident was purely a “mix up” and that there was no security threat, according to K-ABC TV. Google Flights tracker shows the plane being redirected back to LAX.
In a statement, All Nippon Airways expressed “sincere apologies to the passengers on NH 175 that were impacted by the delayed flight from Los Angeles International (LAX) to Tokyo Narita (NRT) on December 26th.” Still, the airline stood by the pilot’s decision: “At the time during the flight, the pilot in command was presented with information about the discrepancy in the passenger manifest. Based on the available information in flight, he made the correct decision to return to LAX. ANA supports the decision of the pilot, out of the abundance of caution and safety for the passengers and crew onboard.”
One person certainly lucked out in this situation. A Twitter user named Raffy snapped a selfie with Teigen and Legend and posted it as his first-ever tweet.
My first tweet can’t be more epic than this: just survived an 8-hour LAX-LAX flight with @chrissyteigen and @johnlegend on #ANA#NH175pic.twitter.com/yY0vIqfcja
— Raffy (@Raffywu) December 27, 2017
This isn’t the first time Teigen has taken to Twitter to air her flight-related grievances. In March, she tweeted in solidarity when two girls were barred from boarding a United flight for wearing leggings. “I have flown united before with literally no pants on. Just a top as a dress,” she said.
