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Southern Belle
02-24-2011, 10:46 AM
Airline puts 80-year-old grandmother on flight to Charlotte by mistake
Posted: Feb 22011 12:16 AM EST Updated: Feb 24, 2011 12:16 AM EST

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Delta Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration are investigating how a woman got on a flight to Charlotte by mistake.

The 80-year-old grandmother boarded the plane in Atlanta. She was supposed to go to Washington D.C. to visit family, but instead she was given someone else's boarding pass.

TSA agents failed to catch the mistake at the security checkpoint. It appears agents did not notice the name on the woman's passport was different than the name on the boarding pass.

The woman's family found out about the mistake when she landed in Charlotte.

The TSA issued the following statement to CBS affliate WUSA in Washington.

"Every day TSA screens nearly 2 million passengers and utilizes many layers of security to keep our nation's transportation systems secure.

We are currently looking into the circumstances regarding this passenger's screening."


WTF are these idiots doing?

lost in melb.
02-24-2011, 11:29 AM
It's all these cheap airfares. Something's gotta give...

Teh One Who Knocks
02-24-2011, 12:18 PM
Maybe she secretly hates her family and really wanted to go to Charlotte? :-k

Southern Belle
02-24-2011, 12:21 PM
How the hell did she get through security with someone else's boarding pass?

Binky
02-24-2011, 12:27 PM
We're supposed to trust them to safely detect a bomb/underwear explosives?

Teh One Who Knocks
02-24-2011, 12:27 PM
That's a good question