• 6-year-old named Casper was accidentally put on the wrong flight to Orlando
• Casper’s grandmother searched for answers from the airline
• The real-life story was similar to the plot of “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” in which a child is lost in an airport
Here is what happened:
Ya filthy animals better give this kid his very own cheese pizza.
After all, on Dec. 21, a 6-year-old namedCasper was meant to fly Spirit Airlines from Philadelphia to Fort Myers, Florida, but was accidentally put on the wrong flight to Orlando.
And when his grandmotherMaria Ramos went to pick him up, she found his luggage—but no Casper.
“They told me, ‘No, he’s not on this flight. He missed his flight,'” she told WINK-TV. “I said, ‘No, he could not miss his flight because I have the check-in tag.’ I ran inside the plane to the flight attendant and I asked her, ‘Where’s my grandson? He was handed over to you at Philadelphia?’ She said, ‘No, I had no kids with me.'”
Though he was ultimately found 160 miles away in Orlando, Maria is still searching for answers from the airline. “I want them to call me,” she said. “Let me know how my grandson ended up in Orlando. How did that happen? Did they get him off the plane? The flight attendant—after mom handed him with paperwork—did she let him go by himself? He jumped in the wrong plane by himself?”
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“The child was always under the care and supervision of a Spirit Team Member, and as soon as we discovered the error, we took immediate steps to communicate with the family and reconnect them,” the airline said in a statement following the incident. “We take the safety and responsibility of transporting all of our Guests seriously and are conducting an internal investigation. We apologize to the family for this experience.”
But we won’t apologize for the blast of nostalgia you’ll feel if you keep reading for all the secrets about Home Alone…
