Mayi wina wazaka 83 yemwe akuwulukira kwawo ku Tampa kuchokera ku New York adayikidwa mwangozi ndege yolakwika kumayambiriro kwa sabata ino, cholakwika chomwe chinamutumiza ku Puerto Rico m'malo mobwerera ku Florida, malinga ndi St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times . Switcheroo idabwera Lolemba, pomwe mayiyo - Elfriede Kuemmel - amabwerera ku Tampa pa ndege ya US Airways. Mwana wamkazi wa Kuemmel, yemwe sankayenda naye, adalankhulana ndi ndege kuti apemphe amayi ake kuti apatsidwe njinga ya olumala ndi thandizo lofikira ndege yake.
Keummel adakwera ndege yake ku New York, koma Times inati "zinthu zidalakwika ku Philadelphia, komwe (iye) amayenera kusintha ndege." Mwana wamkazi wa Keummel akuuza Times akuganiza kuti ndege za Tampa ndi San Juan zonse zidachoka pachipata chimodzi kuchokera ku Philadelphia, komanso kuti snafu inachitika pamene amayi ake adalowa pamzere wolakwika. “Ngakhale momwe amakupangitsani kuti mupirire, sindikumvetsa,” mwana wamkazi Vera akuuza nyuzipepala ya Times. Osati kuti amafunikira kugwidwa pamanja, koma mungaganize kuti wina angamutengere mapiko ake. Ndizosakhulupiririka.”
Mneneri wa US Airways, Valerie Wunder, adatsimikizira kulakwitsa kwa Times, ndikuwonjezera kuti ndegeyo sinadziwe chifukwa chake Keummel adatha kukwera ndege ya San Juan ngakhale anali ndi chiphaso chokwera ndege ya Tampa. "Tikuyang'ana zomwe tikanachita kuti tipewe izi," Wunder adauza pepalalo. US Airways inaika Keummel mu hotelo ya San Juan usiku, kenako ndikumubwezera ku Tampa - kudzera ku Charlotte - Lachiwiri, onse m'kalasi yoyamba.
ZOMWE MUNGACHITE PA NKHANIYI:
- 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.
- 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.
- Keummel’s daughter tells the Times she thinks the Tampa and San Juan flights both departed from the same gate out of Philadelphia, and that the snafu occurred when her mother got in line for the wrong flight.
