Deboarded at Gatwick Airport train station successfully. Manhandled the 50 kilos of luggage up to the departure hall in the South terminal and onto a pair of trolleys. Check-in for Norwegian with kiosks went fairly well, as did dropping off the bags at Oversize. But we came unstuck at the X-ray machine where the queue was moving faster than usual (the staff have challenging targets to meet and the queues were long). I was just leaving the security area when just to be on the safe side I asked P to hand his passport back to me, and we discovered it had gone missing.
It was last seen in the tray going into the x-ray machinery. We checked our pockets twice before asking staff for help at the line, and when they failed to find it we disconsolately trailed over to the service desk to report its loss. I have rarely seen P looking as distressed as he did then.
Andy on the service desk did a second check of the line then started looking through security tape footage ... their cameras are very comprehensive... but this takes quite a while.
Just as our stiff upper lips were begining to quiver, the passport reappeared. It had been brushed off the tray by the rubber strips on leaving the scanner. Phew!
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