Keummel successfully boarded her flight on New York, but the Times says "things went wrong in Philad

An 83-year-old woman flying home to Tampa from New York was accidentally put on the wrong flight earlier this week, a mistake that sent her to Puerto Rico instead of back to Florida, according to the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. The switcheroo came on Monday, when the woman -– Elfriede Kuemmel –- was returning to Tampa on a US Airways flight. Kuemmel's daughter, who was not traveling with her, had contacted the airline to request her mother be given a wheelchair and assistance reaching her flight.
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US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder confirmed the mistake to the Times, adding that the airline wasn't sure why Keummel was able to board the San Juan flight despite having a boarding pass for the Tampa flight. "We are looking into what we could've done on our end to prevent that," Wunder tells the paper. US Airways put Keummel up in a San Juan hotel for the night, then returned her to Tampa -– via Charlotte –- on Tuesday, all in first class.
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