Unaccompanied boy, 6, put on wrong US flight
December 25th, 2023
A six-year-old boy flew alone to the wrong US city after he was “incorrectly boarded” on a Spirit Airlines plane.
Casper was travelling from Philadelphia to meet his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida.
But he ended up in Orlando – a four-hour drive from Fort Myers – after he was mistakenly put on the wrong plane.
Spirit Airlines has apologised and offered to reimburse his grandmother for the drive to pick Casper up.
Casper was meant to be travelling from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers on Thursday, to meet his grandmother, Maria Ramos.
But in a scene reminiscent of the film Home Alone 2, when Kevin gets on a wrong flight – leaving him stranded far away from his family at Christmas, Casper was put on a plane to Orlando, which is 160 miles (260km) from Fort Myers.
After the plane he was supposed to be on landed and her grandson wasn’t on it, panic set in for Ms Ramos.
“I ran inside the plane to the flight attendant and I asked her, ‘Where’s my grandson? He was handed over to you at Philadelphia?'” Ms Ramos told WINK-TV, a television station in Fort Myers.
She said the flight attendant told her: “No, I had no kids with me.”
Fortunately, Casper managed to phone his grandmother soon after he landed in Orlando. Ms Ramos then drove from Fort Myers to pick up her grandson.
“I want them to call me [and] let me know how my grandson ended up in Orlando,” Ms Ramos said.
“How did that happen? Did they get him off the plane? He jumped in the wrong plane by himself?”
Spirit Airlines has apologised and said in a statement: “We take the safety and responsibility of transporting all of our guests seriously and are conducting an internal investigation. We apologize to the family for this experience.”
Such mishaps are uncommon, but unaccompanied minors as well as other passengers have travelled on wrong flights in the past.
In 2009, two different unaccompanied girls were placed on wrong Continental Airlines flights within the US. The airline blamed “miscommunication among staff”.
And in 2019, a boy was put on a United Airlines flight to Germany when he was supposed to be travelling to Sweden.
20/December/2023 04:08 PM
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 (WAFA) The Ministry of Health said today that the Israeli war machine killed 19,902 Palestinians and more than 55,000 were wounded, mainly women and children, since the start of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7.
It said in its daily report that 19,600 were killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, and that more than 55,000 were wounded, while the number of those killed in the West Bank was 302, adding that the vast majority of them, or 70%, were women and children, while thousands are still missing.
The Ministry said that about 310 health workers were killed, in addition to 35 civil defense members, 97 journalists, and 136 staff in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
It pointed out that the number of internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip is estimated at 1.9 million people, or about 90% of the population, and about 1.2 million of these displaced people have been registered in 154 UNRWA facilities throughout the Gaza Strip, including one million people registered in 94 UNRWA shelter centers. in the south.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 