Two completely different airways had large inner errors over the vacations, which led to 2 unaccompanied minors boarding and flying on incorrect flights.
Logan Lose, 16, was set to depart from Tampa Worldwide Airport on a Frontier Airways flight on December 22 to go to Cleveland, Ohio, to go to his mom—however as a substitute ended up in Puerto Rico.
The gate agent reportedly checked Lose’s move however did not scan it earlier than he boarded the flight. The flight that he was alleged to be on was leaving from the identical gate however boarding after the flight to Puerto Rico took off.
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“I might really feel the worry within the textual content messages. I might really feel how scared he was,” the teenager’s father, Ryan Lose, advised NBC Information about his son’s frantic realization that he had landed within the fallacious vacation spot. “My coronary heart just about sank at that time as a result of there was nothing I might do.”
Lose stated that the household referred to as the airline after the flight had taken off to allow them to know what was occurring and the pilot was knowledgeable in order that he might discover Logan when the aircraft landed.
Logan was flown again to Tampa instantly, at 3:30 a.m., on December 23 and was on a 7:45 a.m. flight to Cleveland later that morning.
“This complete ordeal has been demanding for everybody,” Lose advised CNN.
Satirically, Lose’s incident was not the first-of-its-kind this vacation season.
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On December 21, a 6-year-old flying Spirit Airways from Philadelphia was unintentionally placed on a flight to Orlando, Florida, when he was meant to fly to Fort Myers (which is just a few hours away) to go to his grandmother for the vacations.
“The kid was at all times underneath the care and supervision of a Spirit Group Member, and as quickly as we found the error, we took fast steps to speak with the household and reconnect them,” Spirit stated in a press release to CNN.
The kid’s grandmother, Maria Ramos, advised native outlet WINK-TV that it was not made clear how her grandson was incorrectly boarded onto the fallacious aircraft and defined that she needed to drive 160 miles to go choose him up from the airport, which Spirit provided to reimburse.
“We apologize to the household for this expertise,” the airline stated.
