Sleeping passenger left in plane

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A man who dozed off during a connecting flight Friday was not dreaming when he woke to find himself alone and locked in a darkened cabin.

Tom Wagner, a Louisiana boat captain, had nodded off on a flight from Lafayette (Louisiana) to Los Angeles on United Airlines with a stop in Houston.

“I woke up, and I looked up at the ceiling, and I saw the lights were out,’’ Wagner said on TODAY Monday. “Looked down the aisle, ain’t nobody was home.”

Wagner tried to open the door to exit the plane, but it was locked. He quickly called his girlfriend, who thought he was joking.

“She started laughing,’’ he said. “I said, 'You gotta call United and get me off this plane.'’’

His girlfriend quickly called the airline.

After a half hour, maintenance workers opened the door and were stunned to find him inside.

United eventually offered him $250 and a hotel room in Houston for the night, according to Wagner.

ExpressJet, the company that operated the United flight, issued a statement:

“ExpressJet is investigating to determine how this occurred. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this caused for the passenger."