Apparently eating passports is a thing on flights.

[hardcorestitch]

A Ryanair flight was diverted to a French airport after several passengers ate passports or flushed passports in the lavatory. Weirdest and most disgusting diversion ever.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/lifes...trange-passengers-try-to-eat-flush-passports/

 

[LuvOrlando]

How on earth does this benefit a person? Were they hoping to lose ID in order to create a new identity or something when they got to the destination? Was there identity theft and they bribed someone to get waved on but knew they's get discovered when they landed? There has got to be a reason that made sense to them in that moment

 

[snappy]

Hopefully the French authorities will get to the bottom of it. I would have been freaked out if I had been on that flight.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

Maybe there are benefits in Europe by saying you're "undocumented".

We just returned Sunday from a 13-nt trip visiting England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and France. We had conversations with many private tour guides and a taxi driver who had a LOT to say about their country's immigration policy. Let's just say they were not happy about it.