Flight passenger mistakenly boards wrong plane, lands in surprising country after many hours

A United Airlines rider ended up successful a antithetic state aft accidently boarding the incorrect flight.

The rider was headed from Los Angeles to Managua, Nicaragua, with a layover successful Houston — but ended up successful Tokyo, according to aggregate reports.

A United Airlines spokesperson confirmed the incidental to Fox News Digital.

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"We followed up with the airdrome to recognize however this happened, reached retired straight to the lawsuit to apologize for his acquisition and offered question credits and reimbursement," the spokesperson said.

"We ever counsel customers to monitor the signs astatine the gate and boarding announcements to marque definite the craft they committee is going to their intended destination," they added.

The rider reportedly realized mid-flight that helium oregon she was connected the incorrect formation — and asked the formation attendant wherefore the travel to Houston was taking six hours, alternatively than conscionable implicit 3 hours.

The idiosyncratic landed astatine Haneda Airport successful Tokyo, Japan — and stayed astatine a hotel for 2 nights portion United sorted retired a question itinerary to the archetypal destination.

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The hose allegedly archetypal offered a $300 question recognition arsenic an apology — but aboriginal offered $1,000 successful question credits, the blog "View from the Wing" reported.

A Reddit idiosyncratic posted the mishap successful the "r/unitedairlines" forum, sparking a statement astir users.

"Yeah… [if] by 6 hours you haven’t arrived successful Houston, thing is wrong," wrote 1 person. "I’d emotion to spell to Japan by mistake, though."

Another idiosyncratic wrote, "Not saying it happened here, but respective airports person two oregon adjacent 3 gates connected to the aforesaid area. Once you scan your ticket, you tin get onto immoderate of the planes."

"They typically denote the flight’s destination astatine slightest 1 clip earlier they adjacent the door. Perhaps a deficiency of technology oregon a connection obstruction was progressive here," said a antithetic user.

A idiosyncratic wrote, "My puerility fearfulness … I utilized to question astatine that property and ever checked the formation representation connected surface [to spot if I was] going to the close destination."

"How bash you accidentally committee the incorrect flight? There are truthful galore things this feline should've noticed," said 1 individual. 

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Another idiosyncratic commented, "You would beryllium amazed however clueless radical are."