Sleeping flyer wakes in Vancouver airport hangar

A British law professor is slamming Air Canada after the airline left him asleep on a plane for 90 minutes after it landed — and he woke up in a hangar at Vancouver International Airport. Kris Lines says he's not satisfied with the airline's claim that the flight attendant was preoccupied with several wheelchair passengers and didn't check the rest of the cabin.

"It's absolute craziness," said the 31-year-old, who is head of sports law at Staffordshire University. "The last thing I remember was taking off from Calgary. I knew I was safely on board and there was no further destinations and it was all good," Lines added. "Somebody would wake me up at the end."



What he didn't expect was to be roused by a mechanic after the Air Canada Jazz plane was towed into a hangar at YVR. Lines said that when the Vancouver mechanic woke him, he was disoriented and in a rush to grab his bags and jacket and get off the plane.

"He said, 'Don't worry. You should have got off an hour-and-a-half ago,' " Lines recalled. "They took me off the plane down the steps into a hangar, took me into a room, photocopied my boarding pass and said, 'This sort of thing shouldn't be happening. Somebody's neck's going to be on the line for this.'"