Stop letting your kids fly alone!!!
Posted by BlindedByHipHop on June 17th, 2009Okay, this story really caught my attention because of the stupidity.
BOSTON, June 16 (UPI) — A Boston father who sent his young daughter to visit her grandparents in Cleveland said airline staff put her on the wrong plane and she wound up in Newark.
Jonathan Kamens said he took his daughter Miriam, 10, through Logan Airport security and spoke to Continental Airlines agents before leaving her in their care prior to her flight, WBZ-TV, Boston, reported Tuesday.
“They seemed like they knew what they were doing. The paperwork is very specific,” Kamens said. “I had no inkling anything was wrong until my father-in-law called me and said, ‘where is she?’”
Kamens said the family was in a panic for 45 minutes while Continental employees scrambled to locate his daughter.
“She’s off on her trip to visit her grandparents, and then she’s gone, evaporated into thin air and that’s scary,” Kamens said.
The father said he remembered another plane had been leaving the same tarmac for Newark and suggested Continental check that plane. The girl was discovered on the Newark flight and eventually arrived in Cleveland a few hours behind schedule.
“We take very seriously our responsibility to care for unaccompanied minors on our flights,” a Continental representative said in a statement. “In this case, there were two flights departing simultaneously from a single doorway and miscommunication among staff members resulted in the child being boarded on the wrong aircraft. We are truly sorry for this error and have apologized to the family.”
My thing is this stop letting your children fly alone and this won’t be a problem. They are old enough to fly when they can determine if they are on the right plane or not!