PETALING JAYA: A man who arbitrarily switched his seat twice and even went through someone else’s luggage led to a flight to Sandakan being delayed for about two hours.
“I saw a man seated at 4C, then he moved to 2D when the actual passenger of 4C showed up,” said Sabah MCA secretary Datuk Chew Kok Woh, who was seated at 4D.
“Then he moved to 3C and the same thing happened again when the rightful passenger of the seat arrived,” Chew said.
He claimed that the man then went through someone else’s luggage.
“Later, he walked to the front of the aircraft, telling a stewardess that he had lost his wallet,” said Chew.
Chew, who related the incident to The Star, said he was one of the passengers on board the AirAsia Flight AK5194 from KLIA2 to Sandakan.
“The other passengers and I began to feel suspicious and reported him to an air stewardess,” he said.
Subsequently, Chew said an announcement telling everyone to disembark from the plane came on.
“It was then that I saw the real owner coming to retrieve the luggage,” he added.
The nearby passengers asked him to check the contents of his bag to make sure nothing was missing, he added.
Chew said the passengers were puzzled over the identity of the man, who was nowhere to be seen later.
“We were supposed to fly home at noon but we had to go through security checks two times before we resumed our flight at 2.15pm,” he said.
Chew posted on his Facebook, congratulating the police and AirAsia for the second tighter security check.
