Edward Snowden Leaves Journalists Stranded On Flight From Moscow To Havana

Edward Snowden sent a plane full of journalists on a wild goose chase from Moscow to Havana on Monday morning.

The journalists jumped on the Aeroflot flight after word got out that the NSA leaker, who is reportedly trying to get to Ecuador, would be on it. A BBC reporter said that "around two dozen" members of the media had been trying to board the flight.

Unfortunately for them (and their companies' budgets), they got on the plane, but Snowden didn't. Instead, he apparently managed to flummox the entire world and avoid capture by the American government--again.

There was little left for the reporters to do except to tweet forlorn images of Snowden's empty seat:

There were also complaints about the lack of liquor on the plane.

The empty seat inevitably spawned its own parody Twitter account:

Some American journalists were ironic beneficiaries of the restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba; the New York Times said they were ejected from the flight.