Lookalikes?In these post 9/11 days of increased airport security where wearing a foreign-looking t-shirt or carrying a bottle of coke is enough to get you banned from a flight, you might think it was kind of hard to go a-flying without some vaguely accurate declaration of who you are being requested.

Not so for Mark Coshever, a 29 year-old businessman who was flying from Luton to Amsterdam via easyJet. He passed through the full security process at Luton successfully and all seemed well with his journey. Until he arrived at Amsterdam passport control that was, where he suddenly realised he was travelling under the wrong passport. More specifically the passport he got on the plane with was Alicia Coshever's, his 2-year old daughter.

The inadvertent identity thief became a little panic-stricken, figuring that the UK passport checkers must have deliberately let him through and now be tracking him, presumably under the assumption that he was one of the famous brand of terrorists who disguise their bad intentions via vastly inappropriate baby documentation.

Of course this was not the case. Rather it was a rather worrying double-slip up from the easyJet staff. Fortunately the Amsterdam airport security saw the funny side of it, saying that "UK immigration was a bit of a joke" and after an inspection of his driving license and a phone call or two let him into their country for a couple of days.

Furthermore upon arrival back in the UK he got VIP service from immigration and easyJet staff to hurry him back into the country with many an apology and a strong disciplinary word to their staff. Only cynics would think this was in an attempt to avoid the £2000 fine they apparently could have got for their slight security lapse.

Says Coshever (the grown man, not the girl baby one assumes, but it's not like we checked thoroughly):

"It would be a joke if it wasn't so serious. What about people who really do want to sneak on to a plane?"