Sleeping professor left on plane

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 6 (UPI) -- A self-admitted heavy-sleeping British professor says he was appalled to wake up in a Canadian airport service hangar 90 minutes after his flight landed.

Sports law Professor Kris Lines of Staffordshire University told The (Vancouver) Province he's alarmed by the response he got from the Air Canada Jazz airline when he complained about the March 6 incident.

"If I'd been a vulnerable passenger, a young girl or elderly, it could have been a lot worse," he said. "The other implication is that if I was a terrorist, then I've got an hour-and-a-half after the plane's landed, all by myself, in a secure area on a plane."

Lines, 31, flew from Calgary, Alberta, to Vancouver that day and said he hadn't been drinking alcohol, but was tired from being awake for 24 hours.

Lines said he's concerned with the response he got to his e-mail complaint from the airline.

"Although there was no excuse for the incident that occurred, it appears the flight attendant on this occasion was dealing with several wheelchair passengers and coordinating their departure from the aircraft," representative MaryAnn Morgan wrote.