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Chrissy Teigen boarded an eight-hour flight this week — from L.A.X. to L.A.X.
In a bizarre turn of events, the model and outspoken Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp opponent took to the skies on Tuesday in a Tokyo-bound flight that ended up exactly where it started.
“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,” she tweeted. “Why… why do we all gotta go back, I do not know.”
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
While she didn’t seem outright upset about the incident, she couldn’t help but voice her six, possibly seven questions about why the plane had to turn around mid-flight and what exactly the “bedoop machines” accomplish.
I don’t know why I’m not more upset about this. The pleasure I get out of the story is worth more to me than a direct flight to Tokyo
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 27, 2017
Why did we all get punished for this one person’s mistake? Why not just land in Tokyo and send the other person back? How is this the better idea, you ask? We all have the same questions.
— 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
While Teigen and husband John Legend did eventually land in Tokyo (her second flight even appeared to be Star Wars themed), her star power and 9 million Twitter followers made the incident one that the world will not soon forget.
As for the rest of the 226 passengers on-board, TMZ reported that All Nippon Airways doled out around $265 per person for the eight-and-a-half hour inconvenience.
“The cabin crew notified the pilot that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight, and the pilot in command made the decision to return to the originating airport,” the airline said in a statement.
@person who delayed Chrissy Teigen:
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