Teen sleeps through plane's round trip
Fri Sep 1, 2006 2:42 PM BST147

SOFIA (Reuters) - A sleeping teenager flew home to Bulgaria and then back to Malta after aircrew apparently failed to notice she was still on the plane.

Maria Ilieva, 17, was travelling alone and fell asleep on an Air Malta plane taking her overnight from Valletta to Sofia.

Unfortunately she had returned to Malta by the time she woke up, the girl's family said on Friday.

"Air Malta officials said the airplane was not a place for sleeping. But I have not seen any signs saying 'No sleeping', I have only seen signs saying 'No smoking'," the girl's mother, Nadezhda Vulova, told Reuters.

Maria was finally reunited with her family on Thursday, almost four days after her sleepover. She had to pay 200 euros (134 pounds) for the second flight home.

The family said they had filed a complaint against the airline and asked for a refund. Air Malta was not immediately available for comment.

Teen Sleeping Machine

Hehe, oops?

How long is that flight? That must suck for her especially since she had to pay more money for the flight. Why didn't any of the passengers wake her or anythin like that?

she must have been sleeping a long time...plus, how could the crew miss her? I mean, when you land you are on the ground for a good amount of time since you have to clean, fix, etc.

I always sleep on planes. So do most people. Someone should have woke that poor girl up. That's the flight crew's fault.

hahah, funny story to tell in a few weeks, that's all.
I did that on a bus once mind, it was pretty worrisome when i woke up in the service station in darkness lol.

Yeah but if that was my kid someone would be in so much trouble...

That's awesome! No one noticed you were still on the bus?