Face of Nation : Aviation experts are raising security and passenger safety concerns after a woman was left sleeping on a parked Air Canada aircraft with the lights turned off and the crew gone.
A friend recounted Tiffani Adams’s ordeal in a Facebook post, saying she fell asleep during a roughly 90-minute flight from Quebec City to Toronto and woke up a few hours after landing on an empty, dark plane.
Adams eventually unbolted a door and was rescued by a baggage cart operator.
Ross Aimer, CEO of Aero Consulting Experts and a former airline captain, says he’s never heard of such an incident in his roughly four decades of aviation service, and that multiple errors would have to be madeto overlook a passenger during disembarking.
He says while a cleaning, catering or flight crew would have discovered Adams in the morning had she not been so proactive, it’s possible someone with malicious intent could hide on a plane in this manner and attempt to hijack it.
The airline has confirmed the incident happened, but did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
