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Fri 1 Sep, 2006 12:43 pm
Quote:Teen sleeps through plane's round trip
Fri Sep 1, 2006 2:42 PM BST
SOFIA (Reuters) - A sleeping teenager flew home to Bulgaria and then back to Malta after aircrew apparently failed to notice she was still on the plane.
Maria Ilieva, 17, was travelling alone and fell asleep on an Air Malta plane taking her overnight from Valletta to Sofia.
Unfortunately she had returned to Malta by the time she woke up, the girl's family said on Friday.
"Air Malta officials said the airplane was not a place for sleeping. But I have not seen any signs saying 'No sleeping', I have only seen signs saying 'No smoking'," the girl's mother, Nadezhda Vulova, told Reuters.
Maria was finally reunited with her family on Thursday, almost four days after her sleepover. She had to pay 200 euros (134 pounds) for the second flight home.
The family said they had filed a complaint against the airline and asked for a refund. Air Malta was not immediately available for comment.
That just goes to show you how carefully they check a plane after a flight. If they can miss a person, I guess they're not going to catch forgotten personal items left behind.
It's amazing how teenagers can go into a dead sleep like that.
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