today s scheduled tiebreaker. virginia s house of delegates has been postponed until next week. the virginia board of elections was set to choose the winner by lot. that could mean drawing strauss or pulling a name out of a hot. democratic challenger simmons had been petitioning the delay of the drawing to allow further review of the ballots. if she beats her republican opponent yancy there would be a 50-50 split in the house and the first time in decades the republicans were not in control in the commonwealth. a passenger mix-up forced aid l.a. tokyo bound flight to return. once the pilot was notified a passenger was mixed up, he had to return as part of airline security procedure. chrissy teigen and john legend were on that flight.
4:46 eastern. now to the story that stopped twitter for most of the day. a round trip flight to nowhere. after more than eight hours in the air passengers landed right back where they started. chrissy teagan, one of 226 passengers on board made sure everyone, all of her 9 million followers knew about it. flew for four hours before making an abrupt u-turn because an unauthorized passenger was on board. the airline says when the cabin crew notified the pilot the plane turned around because of a part of airline security procedure. traveling with husband john legend, not pleased. first there was confusion. after all this i will have spent eight hours on a flight to nowhere. like we were all just having a great time up here flying in the
the airline is telling us this morning that during the flight the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight and notified the pilot. as part of the airline security procedure, the pilot in command decided to return to the only nating airport where the passenger was disembarked. an aviation source tells me this is being characterized as an administrative mix-up. we strcht don t know what sort of mix-up, despite we all know that when you travel your boarding pass is it scanned. the airlines, they do have a code share agreement. on this particular flight it was ana 175, also coded as united flight 7129. there was also another code share with another airline that
incorrect flight. they then notified the pilot. as part of the airline security procedure, they decided to return to the airport in los angeles. the airline is still trying to figure out exactly what went wrong here. we can note that united airlines and al nippon airlines have a partnership, a cancer-chair. perhaps that has something to do with it. but we don t have solid answers on what happened here. you can hear the collective groan. how do you get on the wrong flight? you are checked so many times. you scan your boarding pass before you get on as well. human error is always there. renee, thanks so much. coming up, russia is offering a mediator to the u.s. how generous. it s all pop-culture trivia, but it gets pretty intense.