A BRIT teenager snuck onto a flight to Italy after getting separated from his parents who were flying back to the UK from Spain.
The panicked couple sounded the alarm after losing sight of the 15-year-old at Menorca Airport, ahead of their scheduled Tui flight back to London Stansted.
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Police checked CCTV cameras and discovered the boy had managed to get past security and board a flight heading to Milan’s Malpensa Airport.
His mum jumped onto a later flight to Italy and was due to be reunited with her son later today.
Spanish police confirmed they had helped locate the youngster after he became separated from his mum and dad.
A source familiar with the extraordinary sequence said: “They were due to catch Tui flight BY5107 back to London Stansted Airport together at 9.25 this morning but became separated.
“The boy’s parents ended up reporting him missing and that led to police intervention.”
A spokesman for the National Police in Majorca said: “Officers checked cameras in the departures area and saw the teenager had managed to get onto a flight to Milan.
“The airport had already activated its missing child alert system but it was deactivated after it was confirmed the lad was on his way to Italy.”
It was not immediately clear this afternoon how the youngster, who according to local reports may suffer from autism, managed to board EasyJet flight U23762.
Despite a rigorous boarding pass check protocol, he managed to get onto the plane which departed at 9.25am on Monday morning without a valid ticket.
The Tui flight he should boarded was due to leave at 10.25am local time, and ended up departing 45 minutes behind schedule.
One airport insider suggested that staff checking passports and tickets had left their posts after processing all the passengers on the Milan flight, allowing the boy to slip through.
Airline staff are said to have realised a passenger without the proper ticket was on board during the flight.
The Sun has contacted easyJet for comment.
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