Russian-Israeli man is charged with being a STOWAWAY after he arrived at LAX without a passport, visa or ticket last month: Flight attendants say he sat in different seats, ordered two meals and tried to eat staff’s chocolate ‘but nothing seemed amiss’

A mystery Russian-Israeli man flew to Los Angeles on a Scandian Airlines flight last month without a passport, visa or ticket and said he was “not sure” how he did it.

Sergei Vladimirovich Ochigava now faces a charge of stowaway as the FBI tries to figure out how he got on the flight from Copenhagen after he claimed he “didn’t remember getting through security without a ticket.”

He wasn’t a stowaway in the traditional sense: he enjoyed five-star treatment, ate double portions of food and even tried to “eat chocolate that belonged to the cabin crew.”

And when they were later questioned by the FBI, airline officials said Ochigawa was “fine,” although he changed seats several times during the flight.

But there was one problem: he shouldn’t have been on board at all. The alarm was only raised when border officials in Los Angeles discovered he did not have a passport.

Ochigawa was only discovered when border officials at Los Angeles Airport realized he did not have a passport, ticket or visa.

Ochigawa was not listed on the manifest of flight SK 931, nor on the passenger list of any other international flight.

He apparently managed to evade international security and passport control in Copenhagen, Denmark, to get on board.

He later told the FBI that he “didn’t sleep for three days and didn’t understand what was going on.”

An affidavit written by FBI officer Caroline Walling states: “When asked how he passed security in Copenhagen, Ochigawa stated that he did not remember how he passed security without a ticket.”

The affidavit added: “The crew noticed Ochigawa because he was wandering around the aircraft and constantly changing seats.

“He also asked for two meals a day at every meal and at one point tried to eat chocolate that belonged to cabin crew.

“The crew members did not see his boarding pass, but noted that the seat he initially occupied during boarding (i.e., seat 36D) was supposed to be unoccupied.”

She said staff did not find another passenger on board because while they counted passengers in each section to check the plane’s balance, they did not count them or check it against the flight log.

When the flight arrived in Los Angeles, Ochigawa disembarked as usual and showed up at customs.

Staff on board the plane told the FBI that there was “nothing wrong” with Ochigawa, who even asked for double portions and tried to eat their chocolate.

But when he couldn’t produce a passport or visa, he was questioned by the FBI, where he told officers he had a doctorate in economics and management and had left his passport on the plane.

But when the passport was not found during the search, he stated that he had not slept for three days and did not understand what was happening and how he got here.

Walling said, “When questioned, Ochigawa gave false and misleading information about his trip to the United States, including initially telling CBP that he left his U.S. passport on the plane.”

Police then searched his bag and found “Russian ID cards and Israeli ID cards” as well as a “partial passport photo.”

They also searched his phone and found a photo of an airplane display at Copenhagen Airport and “screenshots from the Maps app showing a hostel in Kiel, Germany, and street maps of an unknown foreign city.”

A Scandinavian Airlines spokesperson told CourtWatch: “I can confirm that an incident occurred where a passenger was involved in the scenario described below while departing from Copenhagen on a SAS flight.

“This matter is being reviewed by the relevant authorities in both the US and Denmark and we are unable to comment further. More detailed information will have to be provided to the authorities.”