A Tokyo-bound jet returned to Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday because the crew learned four hours into the flight that a passenger was on the wrong plane, ANA said. Flight 175 departed Los Angeles at 11:36 a.m. (0336 GMT) for Tokyo Narita Airport but turned around over the Pacific Ocean when crew members learned of the mix-up. It landed in Los Angeles at 7:33 p.m.,the airline said. Model Chrissy Teigen said in a tweet that she and her husband John Legend, a singer and actor, were on the flight. “During the flight, the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight and notified the pilot,” ANA said. “As part of the airline’s security procedure, the pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport, where the passenger was disembarked.” Los Angeles television station KTLA said that the FBI interviewed passengers and that the agency had received reports of a “possible stowaway” aboard the flight but no arrests have been made. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ANA said it was investigating the incident. “We take great pride providing exemplary customer service, and on this flight we failed to do so,” the airline said.<br/>
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Belgian investigators have disclosed that the crew of a climbing EgyptAir Airbus A300-600 freighter misunderstood an instruction to level off from its collision-avoidance system before a serious airprox involving an Air France A320. The A300, flying east from Ostend to Cairo on airway UL607, had been cleared to 21,000ft after take-off and was climbing at 2,500ft/min. Belgium's Air Accident Investigation Unit says the A300 was set to pass behind the northbound A320 which was flying on airway UN873 at the higher level of 22,000ft. The controller instructed the A320 to diverge left from the airway, towards a waypoint designated FERDI, to speed its crossing. Although the A300 crew had been advised about the A320, which would cross from right to left above them, and had correctly read back instructions to maintain 21,000ft, the freighter continued to climb. Both aircraft issued collision-avoidance advisories, with the A300 crew ordered to level off, having not shown any "visible change" of vertical speed as the jets approached. Investigators state that the A300 crew later claimed to have "understood a 'climb' instruction". The captain took control from the autopilot and, instead of levelling the aircraft, increased its climb rate to 3,500ft/min. Story has more details. While investigators have yet to reach formal conclusions over the 1 January incident, pan-European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol has simulated the encounter to explore alternative scenarios.<br/>