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Nap Traps JetBlue Worker in Cargo Hold

Sleepy stowaway survives NY-Boston flight below decks

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(Newser) – A JetBlue employee ended up flying from New York to Boston in a plane's cargo hold after dozing off while stacking luggage, the Boston Globe reports. The panicked baggage handler called the airline when he woke and realized he was airborne. The worker was uninjured, and was returned to New York—in the passenger cabin—after being interviewed by police.

A JetBlue plane rests its wings at JFK Airport in New York in this 2008 file photo.
A JetBlue plane rests its wings at JFK Airport in New York in this 2008 file photo.   (AP Photo/Jin Lee, file)
JetBlue planes taxi on a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
JetBlue planes taxi on a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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Even after talking to him we were a little uncertain as to how it happened. - David Procopio, a state police spokesman.

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