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PASSPORT OUT-OF-CONTROL

Grandad flies to Ibiza using a WOMAN’S passport on Monarch airline flight out of Gatwick

Keith Jordan's passport was checked twice by crew at Gatwick, but they failed to spot the mix-up through border controls

A GRANDAD flew to Ibiza mistakenly using a female friend’s passport.

Monarch airline crew at Gatwick checked the passport twice but failed to spot it belonged to Angela Darkin, 61, not Keith Jordan, 78.

Keith Jordan travelled to Ibiza using Angela Darkin's passport, right
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Keith Jordan travelled to Ibiza using Angela Darkin's passportCredit: Eddie Mitchell - Aerial News

Spanish authorities then let Keith through entry and exit border controls.

The caretaker, from Brighton, was only collared back at Gatwick a week later, when a passport official asked: “Have you had a sex change?”

'Keith's' passport was checked twice by Monarch staff at Gatwick airport
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'Keith's' passport was checked twice by Monarch staff at Gatwick airportCredit: PA:Press Association

Keith said: “I don’t know how nobody noticed. I’m nearly 20 years older and have glasses. And I’m a bloke.

“It makes you wonder how secure things really are at airports.”

B&Q worker Angela’s passport was destroyed, leaving her stranded ahead of a £2,000 holiday to Morocco.

Monarch told The Sun: “We are investigating.”

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