British teenager boards wrong flight at Menorca airport and ends up in Italy
The 15-year-old was supposed to fly with Tui from Menorca to Stansted, but disappeared in the island's Mahon airport.
The boy's parents raised the alarm, and when police reviewed CCTV footage from the airport's departures area they discovered the boy had managed to board a flight to Milan Malpensa without a ticket.
A National Police spokesperson in Mallorca said: 'Officers checked cameras in the departures area and saw the teenager had managed to get on to a flight to Milan. The airport had already activated its missing child alert system but it was deactivated after it was confirmed the lad was on his way to Italy.'
The boy's mother was reported to have been reunited with him yesterday after catching a flight to Italy.
During the flight, airline staff noticed a passenger without a ticket was onboard, according to reports. Easy Jet said the passenger was met by their team and the local authorities in Milan, and that they had arranged for a family member to meet him. The British family has not been identified.
In a statement, an Easy Jet spokesperson said: 'We are investigating with the airport and our ground handling provider at Mahon how a young passenger was able to travel unaccompanied on the wrong flight to Milan this morning.
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'The passenger was met by our team and the local authorities in Milan and we have provided travel arrangements for a family member to meet them that day. We remain in touch with the family to offer our support.'
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