One airline passenger’s slumber turned into something a little more alarming when he woke up and realized the plane he was traveling in was empty, dark and locked.
Tom Wagner had dozed off on the Dec. 6 flight and instead of waking him from his sweet dreams, the crew just simply overlooked him.
“I woke up and the lights were out. I was like, what’s going on? I thought maybe it was a layover, still on the same plane,” he told KTRK.
In fact, the three dozen other passengers on the flight from Louisiana to Texas also failed to see Wagner sleeping in his seat, or they simply refused to wake him up when they deplaned.
A surprised and shocked Wagner called his girlfriend to get some help.
“I called my girlfriend, and she thought I was crazy. I said, ‘Debbie I’m locked on the plane.’ I said, ‘I’m telling you the truth; you better go somewhere and get me off this plane.’”
After his girlfriend called the airline, workers came onboard around half an hour later to rescue Wagner.
“I said, ‘Don’t put the blame on me. I didn’t do anything wrong here.’ And then they were, like, try to hush-hush, keep it quiet. And they gave me this little package here in a motel room.”
The company released this statement regarding their error:
They did not, however, refund Wagner’s ticket. They did give him a $250 voucher and put him in a hotel room.
But that didn’t quell the anger and shock of being locked in the dark plane.
“What if I had a medical condition or something?” Wagner asked. “What if I had a heart attack and I was dead? You just shut the plane and leave someone on there?”
We feel you, Wagner. Completely unacceptable.
SOURCE: ABC Local/KTRK | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty, Screengrab/CNN
