When Jacob Meir Abdellak, a Frenchman living in London, was too late to board his flight from London Gatwick to Los Angeles this past May, staff would not allow him on board. His solution to avoid missing his flight was to call in a fake threat involving a “noxious substance likely to create serious risk to human health.”
About eight minutes before the flight was supposed to leave, passengers had to deplane and be rescreened. The flight was delayed by 90 minutes, but Abdellak, still late, managed to miss it.
