He used a self check-in kiosk to board the flight at Heathrow and was allowed through when the document was checked in the bag-drop area.

BBC: Stephen Lennon

Changes to Delta's self-service check-in kiosk designs were launched across all worldwide locations in September on more than 2, 500 individual kiosks.

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