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Old Feb 16, 2012, 2:50 pm
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Originally Posted by AARay
If you saw 2 passengers get off then there was 1 too many on the aircraft. The flight finally left with 167 out of 168 seats occupied. It seems that one person that got on the flight didn't have their boarding pass scanned, creating a seat dupe that wasn't discovered until the flight was moving. As has been pointed out, everyone was screened so nothing concerning there. At least it wasn't like the PIA flight where the crew decided to have 2 passengers sit in the lav for the flight because the rest of the seats were full! ( http://news.hamaraphotos.com/ians/pi...o-instead.html )
Sounds like a plausible explanation, except I would think that if two folks got off then in fact both of them, not one, inadvertently got on the wrong flight. Perhaps this took place due to the computers going down during the boarding process and the GA not checking their boarding passes carefully enough. Could be that the pilot was being inaccurate or misinformed when he said that there was (only) one extra passenger on board.

As for the PIA lavatory seating story, some folks might prefer that to
coach.
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