In a twist reminiscent of The Hangover films, a precocious 9-year-old from Minnesota bypassed security and successfully boarded a Las Vegas-bound Delta flight, Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan said Sunday.

The incident, which took place last Thursday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Delta Flight 1651, an 11:15 a.m. flight, Hogan said.

Hogan said flight attendants picked up on the discrepancy and contacted Las Vegas police, who took the boy when the plane landed and placed him with child protection services. When police in Minnesota visited the child's parents, they remarked they “hadn’t seen much of him today.”