PAXboy
19th Feb 2019, 21:36
British man flew from the Czech Republic to Newcastle on the wrong passport after accidentally taking his friend's and leaving him stranded. Allan Poole, 43, from Whitley Bay, travelled from Prague to Newcastle via Amsterdam on a KLM flight.
The passport was checked at least four times during the journey, but the mistake was not picked up.
The bit I find truly staggering is this:
A spokesman for the British Embassy in Prague said it was not unusual for people to travel on other people's passports.
He said: "People do travel on (the wrong passport), they don't get checked when they come out and stuff like that. It's quite common actually, to be honest with you, people do travel on other people's passports accidentally, it does happen.
BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-47299483)
The passport was checked at least four times during the journey, but the mistake was not picked up.
The bit I find truly staggering is this:
A spokesman for the British Embassy in Prague said it was not unusual for people to travel on other people's passports.
He said: "People do travel on (the wrong passport), they don't get checked when they come out and stuff like that. It's quite common actually, to be honest with you, people do travel on other people's passports accidentally, it does happen.
BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-47299483)