A British woman who was blocked by Ryanair staff from retrieving her passport from where she had left it on a plane was then deported from Morocco.
Rebecca McCurry travelled to Marrakech with three friends - but upon arriving at the airport, she realised she had left her passport on board.
The 22-year-old insisted she immediately alerted staff and told them exactly where on board her passport was, but she was told that after "sweeping the plane" they were unable to find the document.
However, friends of hers later found the passport on their return flight.
After 11 hours and intense questioning by border security, the nanny from Lochgilphead in Scotland was deported to Manchester.
She said: "Keeping my passport on me is my responsibility, obviously. But I was away from it for five minutes before I realised.
"I told a member of airport staff and they said it wasn't a problem, and they'd let the people from Ryanair know.
"I said I was happy to get it myself, but they wouldn't let me back on the plane."
Rebecca McCurry was travelling to Marrakech with three friends
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Ms McCurry described then becoming "a bit panicky" as she waited and then was told by Ryanair staff that they could not find it.
She was then taken for questioning which she said was "terrifying", adding: "I did not feel like a person at all. It was just insane."
After three hours of intense questioning, she claimed she lied and told them she had spoken to an immigration lawyer, and then was immediately put on a return flight to Manchester.
Her father then drove six hours to collect her.
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Having left her passport on the plane, Rebecca McCurry said she was interrogated for hours in Marrakech Airport
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Ms McCurry asked her friends to keep an eye out for her passport on their flight to Edinburgh - and they managed to find it just where she said it would be.
However, Ryanair then took the passport from them, and she spent a month trying to contact Ryanair and then had to pay £30 to get the travel document back.
A Ryanair spokesman said: "This passenger misplaced their passport on board their flight from Edinburgh to Marrakech on July 31 and subsequently was denied entry to Marrakech.
"As requested by Marrakech authorities, Ryanair reaccommodated this passenger onto the next available flight to the UK later that day."
Rebecca McCurry was deported on a flight to Manchester Airport
| GETTYThey added: "In this case, the passenger was required to present a passport upon arrival at Marrakech Airport, which they failed to do, and they were correctly denied entry to the country.
"Ryanair hands over all lost property to the lost and found office at each airport.
"Once the crew located this passenger's passport, this passenger's passport was handed over to lost property at Edinburgh Airport."