發佈時間：2013年12月08日
In an exclusive interview with the passenger, Tom Wagner tells ABC13 Eyewitness News what he did the moments after he woke up to a dark cabin.

It's the fifth largest airport in the nation. More than 40 million passengers flew out of Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport just last year.

"I was coming from Louisiana to see my sister in California. We had a layover in Texas," Wagner said. "I just took my hat off and I took a nap."

And never have we heard of a story like Wagner's.

"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 woke up to a cold and pitch-black cabin, and the aircraft doors were locked shut.

He thought he was dreaming. When he made a frantic call to his girlfriend, she thought he was joking.

"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.'"

Wagonor says his girlfriend called the airline. After more than half an hour, workers came aboard and were stunned to find the lone passenger.

"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."

United Express is investigating how this could this happen. Once in Houston, no one bothered to wake up Wagner -- not a passenger, flight attendant or pilot. So, he slept.

"They didn't sweep the plane," Wagner said. "I mean, who shut the door?"


The airline said there was a post-flight walk-through that was done, but the company couldn't explain how they missed Wagner.

"Let this be a lesson. It was incident enough. It was a faux pas," said James Conway with Global Intel Strategies Inc.

Conway is a former FBI agent and a counterterrorism expert. He says the incident is alarming.

"If an individual is going to be missed, what about a package or a backpack or a piece of luggage that could pose a threat to the aircraft on the next flight?" Conway asked.

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坐飛機也會坐過頭？美國一名男子從路易斯安那州起飛，前往加州，途中在飛機上睡著了，所有人下機後，沒人注意到他，把他鎖在飛機上。


華格納醒來後，發現自己坐在冰冷、黑漆漆的空蕩蕩機艙內。幸好手機可通，讓他打電話給女友。

華格納對KTRK說：「我女友認為我瘋了。我說，『我被鎖在飛機裡，我說的是事實，你最好做些什麼，把我弄出去』。」

在女友聯絡航空公司30分鐘後，終於有人前來打開機艙門。


ExpressJet發表書面聲明說，正進行調查，以釐清事件原委。



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