FILE: A United Express plane departs from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Dec. 29, 2025.

Authorities arrested a man after he allegedly boarded a flight for which he did not have a ticket and hid in an airplane’s bathroom to avoid being caught.

On May 18, at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, security camera footage showed a man passing through the security checkpoint after talking with multiple Transportation Security Administration agents, according to court documents obtained by SFGATE. Footage then captured the man walking around the airport, the documents said, before he successfully boarded United Airlines Flight 469 to Los Angeles by allegedly pretending to show his boarding pass while gate agents were distracted.

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