Summary A man disguised as luggage was taken to the check-in counter at Miami Airport, confusing onlookers. Possibly weighing around 199 pounds, the baggage-man was well above LATAM Airlines' limit of up to 99.2 lbs.
The video of the man-bag was shared on Instagram by a citizen journalism account, Only in Dade. Many things are not permitted in checked bags on flights , but can people be taken on aircraft as checked baggage ? Well, sometimes it's worth a try. A video of a man hopping around disguised as luggage at the Miami International Airport has just emerged on social media .
However, it seems the airline saw right through the ruse and sent the bag hopping on home. Man-bag drop off Around 22:00 on August 27, a man tightly swaddled in luggage wrap hopped up to the LATAM Airlines check-in counter. The baggage-man was guided by an apparent passenger.
The apparent passenger helped guide his hopping baggage to the baggage-drop counter where he picked up to the barcode scanner to check in his lively luggage for the LATAM flight. The man-bag then sat on the scale as onlookers gawked in bewilderment. It is unclear how much the man-bag weighed, but the average adult man's weight in the United States is 199 pounds.
This could make the man-bag around twice the maximum weight permitted for checked luggage. While most airlines (like American Airlines) only permit individual pieces of luggage to weigh up to 50 lbs, LATAM Airlines allows baggage up to 99.2 lbs per piece.
At any rate, 199.