Elderly Woman Traveling to Florida Mistakenly Sent to Puerto Rico
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An 83-year-old Florida woman flying back to Tampa after a trip to New York somehow wound up in Puerto Rico instead.
Elfriede Kuemmel had gone to Newburgh, N.Y., to interview for a spot in an assisted living home on Monday, MyFOXTampaBay.com reported.
Kuemmel's family said that an attendant on a connecting flight in Philadelphia accidentally put Kuemmel on a flight to San Juan.
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The woman's daughter, Vera Kuemmel, spent Monday night at the baggage claim in Tampa trying to find her mother. Later, a man called her to say her mother was at the baggage claim looking for her.
"He was like, 'I'm in a white shirt. Do you see me?' I said no," Vera Kuemmel told MyFOXTampaBay.com.
She soon realized that her mother had flown to Puerto Rico instead of Tampa.
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Elfriede Kuemmel spent the night in Puerto Rico and arrived at the Tampa airport Tuesday.
A U.S. Airways representative said the airline paid for her food and hotel and flew her back to Florida first-class.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.