CNN seems to have the most complete description so far of a refugee story in Canada. A young Asian man disguised himself as an elderly White man when he boarded an international flight.

He removed the disguise during the flight, which hardly made a low profile. Some reports say his young-looking hands were enough to give him away but not until he was on the flight; obviously successful in avoiding anyone who could have prevented him from flying.

“Information was received from Air Canada Corporate Security regarding a possible imposter on a flight originating from Hong Kong,” the alert says. “The passenger in question was observed at the beginning of the flight to be an elderly Caucasian male who appeared to have young looking hands. During the flight the subject attended the washroom and emerged an Asian looking male that appeared to be in his early 20s.”

After landing in Canada, Border Services Officers (BSOs) escorted the man off the plane where he “proceeded to make a claim for refugee protection,” the alert says.

“The subject initially claimed to be in possession of one bag; however, flight crew approached the BSOs with two additional pieces of luggage which were believed to belong to the subject. One bag contained the subject’s personal clothing items while the second contained a pair of gloves. The third contained a ‘disguise kit’ which consisted of a silicone type head and neck mask of an elderly Caucasian male, a brown leather cap, glasses and a thin brown cardigan.”

Did he really speak and answer security questions with this thing over his head?

A big clue to the story is at the end:

“It is believed that the subject and the actual United States Citizen passenger (whose date of birth is 1955) performed a boarding pass swap, with the subject using an Aeroplan [frequent flyer] card as identification to board the flight,” the alert said.

Another clue could be that the flight was October 29th, but it seems this is only a coincidence and there is no connection to Halloween.