However, this isn't the norm in Denmark as a passenger from Russia managed to travel from Copenhagen Airport to Los Angeles without presenting any proper documentation or even a plane ticket.
From KTLA:
Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava faces a charge of being a stowaway on an aircraft related to a Nov. 4 flight, but according to a report by Jason Koebler published jointly by 404 Media and Court Watch, he “was not a stowaway in the traditional sense.”
“[Ochigava] seemingly interacted with flight crew, ate two meals on the plane, spoke to other passengers on the flight, and, at one point ‘attempted to eat the chocolate that belonged to members of the cabin crew,’ Koebler wrote. “The affidavit states that ‘most’ of the crew noticed him on the plane, and said he was sitting in a few different seats, but that nothing else seemed amiss.”
Despite being very visible to many on the plane, Ochigava, an economist, had apparently evaded security in Copenhagen, Denmark, from which his flight departed.
Ochigava was not on the flight’s manifest, nor was he on the passenger list of any other international flight.
His iPhone contained a picture of the flight board at Copenhagen’s airport and “screen grabs from the ‘Maps’ app showing a hostel in Kiel, Germany, and street maps from an unknown foreign city,” FBI agent Caroline Walling wrote in an affadavit.
He did have some identification, however.
“A search of his bags found ‘Russian identification cards and an Israeli identification card,’ as well as ‘a partial photograph of a passport,'” Koebler wrote.
Perhaps the most confounding part of the saga is that Ochigava seemingly had no inkling anything was amiss until he arrived in the U.S. and tried to pass an examination by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
It's quite astonishing that this guy pulled off such a long-distance journey without even buying a ticket. Maybe he just slipped through the cracks, but either the Copenhagen Airport needs to tighten up their operations or this man is running some kind of con.
