Locked Up In A Plane.

Tom Wagner.

This Louisiana man fell asleep during a flight and locked up in a plane, he woke up Friday  night in Houston inside an empty airplane, and insisted that he was not an unusually deep sleeper.

"No, I'm really not," Tom Wagner said in an interview with CNN Monday. "I just sleep, you know? And I get a lot of questions like, well, 'Didn't you feel when you landed?' ... I work for the oil field industry, and sleeping like bouncing around is kind of the norm."

Wagner, fall asleep in a window seat near the back of the United ExpressJet plane,  described the moment he realized he was left behind. "I woke up and I happened to look up and the lights were out," he said. "I was like, 'Well, what's going on here?' And then I looked down the aisles and nobody was there."

Wagner then called his girlfriend, who laughed and didn't believe him. "Debbie, you gotta call the airlines," Wagner said, recalling the conversation. "I'm locked in the plane." Maintenance workers eventually arrived and opened the door about a half hour later.

"They were like, 'Who are you? What are you doing on this plane?' I said, 'Dude, I was a passenger on the plane.' ... and then [they] said, 'Where's your badge?' I said, 'I don't work here.'" The airline said it is trying to figure out how Wagner was missed during a routine sweep of the plane by the flight crew.

Courtesy of CNN.