BEIRUT: Officials at Beirut’s international airport said Friday they were investigating how a teenage boy was able to sneak onto a flight and travel to Turkey without a ticket or passport.
The boy boarded an Istanbul-bound plane operated by Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, on Wednesday.
He was discovered by the crew onboard after the plane had already taken off, when they realised there were more passengers on the aircraft than on the manifest they had been given, local media said.
“Widescale investigations are ongoing into the details of the incident and how the child passed through the security checkpoints and boarded the plane without being detected,” airport authorities said in a statement published by the official National News Agency.
