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In Plane Sight

News of the Weird

By News of the Weird

Published Feb. 9, 2021

In Plane Sight

On Jan. 16 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, two employees of United Airlines approached a man and asked for his ID. Aditya Singh, 36, of Orange, California, produced an employee badge, but it was not his: Another employee had reported it missing on Oct. 26, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Authorities said Singh had arrived at O'Hare on Oct. 19 from Los Angeles and was too afraid to fly back home because of COVID-19, so he hid in a secured area of the airport for three months, living off food given to him by strangers.

Singh is unemployed but has a master's degree in hospitality and doesn't have a criminal background.

He was charged with felony criminal trespass. [Chicago Tribune, 1/17/2021]