After a journey that started in Guernsey, the group found themselves stuck behind the arrivals barrier at Dinard Airport, where they were told they were not allowed to enter the country without their passports.
But none of those on board the Trislander had been expecting to visit France and few had brought the document with them.
Their visit came about after they left Guernsey bound for Alderney at 3 pm yesterday.
Fog then closed in around Alderney, then Guernsey, and Jersey’s air display left no alternative but to divert to Dinard.
One of those on board was 74-year-old Ray Parkin, whose father, Stan, used to own the holiday camp at Plémont and whose brother, Gary, still lives in Jersey.
He had been to Guernsey for a day trip and this morning was back at Guernsey Airport where yesterday’s incident started.
He said: ‘When we got to Dinard they weren’t expecting us.
The French treated us like illegal immigrants – we couldn’t move from the departures lounge and the police arrived to make sure we didn’t move.
We were sitting there for nearly two hours.
It was very uncomfortable.
‘Our very helpful Aurigny pilot told the Immigration officials there was no way we could leave and at about 8 pm they decided to let us go and stay at hotels locally.
We were taken there with full armed escort and they took every detail about us.
I only had two M & S bags as luggage and my lasagne has been inspected three times now.’
