Tokyo-bound flight with John Legend and Chrissy Teigen on board returns to LAX after an 'unauthorized person' was found on board FOUR HOURS into the journey

  • A flight bound for Tokyo from LAX was four hours into its journey when an 'unauthorized person' was discovered on board
  • The plane had to return to LAX where everyone on board would deplane but not before they were interviewed by police  
  • Chrissy Teigen and husband John Legend were on the flight and have been tweeting the bizarre situation in real time 
  • Teigen shared that the issue appeared to be that the unauthorized passenger was on the wrong flight- with the wrong airline
  • The flight is now scheduled to depart for Tokyo on Wednesday morning

By Jessica Finn For Dailymail.com

Published: 22:29 EST, 26 December 2017 | Updated: 09:18 EST, 27 December 2017

A Tokyo-bound flight from LAX with Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on board was forced to turn around four hours into its journey after an 'unauthorized person' made it onto the plane.

All Nippon Airways flight 175 took off at 11:36am local time on Tuesday, but was back on US soil eight hours later after the breach forced them to make a u-turn. 

The bizarre situation caused confusion among many passengers, including Teigen, who was heading on a vacation with her musician husband. 

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John Legend and Chrissy Teigen were on a flight heading to Tokyo for vacation, but the plane made a u-turn four hours into their journey because an 'unauthorized passenger' was on board
Chrissy Teigen

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen were on a flight heading to Tokyo for vacation, but the plane made a u-turn four hours into their journey because an 'unauthorized passenger' was on board

Chrissy Teigen tweeted the entire debacle of a flight that took off for LAX bound for Tokyo, but had to be turned around four hours into the trip for an unauthorized passenger on board

Chrissy Teigen tweeted the entire debacle of a flight that took off for LAX bound for Tokyo, but had to be turned around four hours into the trip for an unauthorized passenger on board

What a trip: LAX to LAX and it only took eight hours to complete, per Teigen 

What a trip: LAX to LAX and it only took eight hours to complete, per Teigen 

According to All Nippon Airways, the unauthorised person was a passenger who had boarded the wrong Tokyo flight. 

'During the flight, the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight and notified the pilot,' the airline said in a statement to CNBC. 

'As part of the airline's security procedure, the pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport, where the passenger was disembarked.' 

Ms Teigen, who is pregnant with the couple's second child, shared her frustration with her 9.2million Twitter followers and tried to make sense of what was going on.

'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,' she shared on Twitter, certainly happy she sprung for the in-flight WiFi. 

While the situation was frustrating for everyone on board, Teigen was taking it in stride and saw amusement in the baffling situation. '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.'

'Lmao after all this I will have spent 8 hours on a flight to nowhere. Like we were all just havin a great time up here flyin in the sky watching gran torino time to go home now,' apparently the in flight movie playing was Gran Torino, according to the model. 

This is the captain speaking, we're gonna have to make a u-turn right here: Four hours into a flight bound for Tokyo an unauthorized person was discovered on-board. It seems the passenger was on the wrong airline- which caused the flight to be diverted back to LAX

Chrissy Teigen tweeted her own experience on a flight to Tokyo that had an unauthorized passenger on board

Chrissy Teigen tweeted her own experience on a flight to Tokyo that had an unauthorized passenger on board

'This is my dream': The nightmare journey did not end once the flight landed at LAX because passengers would be interviewed for 20 minutes by police before they deplaned

'This is my dream': The nightmare journey did not end once the flight landed at LAX because passengers would be interviewed for 20 minutes by police before they deplaned

The mystery over the 'unauthorized passenger' continued well after the flight landed at LAX

The mystery over the 'unauthorized passenger' continued well after the flight landed at LAX

Police continued to question people seated in the area of the passenger in question- but they may have been just trying to get to the bottom of how this costly mix-up happened in the first place

Police continued to question people seated in the area of the passenger in question- but they may have been just trying to get to the bottom of how this costly mix-up happened in the first place

Once passengers deplaned Teigen was sequestered in a room with a television turned to the channel Bravo 

Once passengers deplaned Teigen was sequestered in a room with a television turned to the channel Bravo 

They... they gave me ramen: While in the room where Teigen had been placed, she was given ramen 

They... they gave me ramen: While in the room where Teigen had been placed, she was given ramen 

When the plane finally landed- in its original origin, Teigen cracked: 'LAX —> LAX flight complete. Flight time, 8 hours and 20 minutes.' 

Teigen shared a video of her and Legend waiting around inside the plane after they landed. She tells her husband: 'Thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation babe,' to which Legend deadpans: 'Welcome to Los Angeles.'

LAX Airport Police told local ABC7 officers would have a unit and supervisors on scene when the flight arrived back to its original departure point. 

Authorities said the flight's return to it's point of origin was because of a 'mix up and was straightened up.' 

'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,' Teigen tweeted. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to ANA Airlines, as well as LAWA Police, who did not respond.  

The nightmare journey did not end once the plane landed. The model shared that all of the passengers would be interviewed by police for 20 minutes before they could deplane.

However, well after passengers exited the flight, Teigen was tweeting she was sequestered in a room. It was unclear if other passengers were with her.

She said they put Bravo on for her to watch the Real Housewives, while adding they were trying to keep her quiet. Teigen also tweeted 'They... they gave me ramen.' 

The All Nippon Airways flight is now scheduled to depart tomorrow morning. 

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