Mark Garland was checking into a flight to Bangkok at Heathrow Airport when staff told him he’d “already checked in”. What he didn’t know was that he was about to make a friend for life
A man was baffled after he discovered his doppelganger sitting next to him on a flight – and found out they had the same name, friends and hobbies.
Mark Garland, 58, was checking into a flight to Bangkok, Thailand at Heathrow Terminal 2 when staff told him he’d “already checked in”. After 40 minutes staff finally worked out there were two Mark Garlands on the flight – but the similarities didn’t end there. They met in departures and looked remarkably similar, with an identical shaved head.
And when Mark got to his seat on the plane he found out he was sat right next to the ‘other’ Mark Garland. Younger Mark, a bus driver from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, spent 11-and-a-half-hours chatting to ‘the other one’ – a 62-year-old builder from Warmley, Bristol.
They discovered they live just 15 miles apart and…
