Airline negligence attorneys were astounded to learn that two young children traveling on their own was mistakenly put onto wrong Continental Express flights over the last weekend. According to an Associated Press news report, an 8-year-old College Station girl erroneously ended up in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl was mistakenly sent to Newark, New Jersey after boarding planes operated by ExpressJet, which is under contract with Continental Express Airlines. After the airline accident Continental apologized to the children's families in a short statement that said the mix-up was simply "a miscommunication among staff."
What did the girls' families have to say? Wendy Babineaux, one of the moms, was livid, justifiably so. Her daughter, who was involved in this airline negligence case, was on a Continental Airline flight headed to Charlotte, North Carolina to see her dad. She was sent to Arkansas, back to Houston, then to Charlotte. Jonathan Kamens, the father of 10-year-old Miriam said he put his daughter on a Cleveland-bound flight in Boston to visit her grandparents. The girl ended up in New Jersey. Read the rest »
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