Security questions are being asked after a sleeping passenger was left behind for several hours on an arriving flight at Philadelphia International Airport.
Like a lot of travelers, Ginger McGuire, who works at a radio station and a local cable TV channel in suburban Detroit, tried to get some rest on her redeye United Airways Express flight from Washington D.C. The flight landed in Philadelphia just after midnight Tuesday morning.
But unlike her fellow passengers, McGuire, according to police and TSA reports, was apparently forgotten. She was left sleeping in her seat alone for more than three hours after everyone else got off the aircraft.
Records show flight 8080 arrived in Philadelphia from Dulles Airport at 12:27 a.m. The crew and passengers deplaned shortly thereafter.
It wasn't until 3:50 a.m. that a cleaning crew found McGuire still sleeping on the plane.
"I can't believe on a 50 passenger plane that nobody would wake someone up like that," traveler Trevor Hirz said.
McGuire, the report notes, was a properly ticketed passenger. The issue raised by leaving her on the plane is not one of security, but rather the crew's alertness.
A spokesperson for United Airlines released a statement to Eyewitness News that read: "We are working closely with our partner Trans States to investigate the cause and remedy the situation with the customer."
A Trans State spokesperson told Eyewitness News that it is standard protocol to make sure all passengers are safely off the plane at the end of every flight.
The incident remains under investigation.
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