NC: Airline Mix-Up Lands Elderly RDU-Bound United Passenger in Denver

March 1, 2018

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — An airline mix-up landed an elderly woman across the country while relatives were waiting for her at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Nikki Paradis' said her mother-in-law was supposed to land at RDU on a United Airlines flight around 6 p.m. Tuesday, but the 80-year-old landed in Denver after boarding the wrong plane.

"How is it possible that a woman got on a plane that she did not have a boarding pass for and is now in another state?” Paradis said.

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