Flight mix-up sends couple to wrong state

A 96-year-old woman and an 89-year-old man were wheeled to the wrong gate at a South Florida airport and ended up on a flight to upstate New York instead of Michigan.

Helen Wheeker and her husband, George Nobel, ended up Ogdensburg, New York, instead of Grand Rapids, Michigan, after being put on the wrong Allegiant Air flight on Wednesday at Fort LauderdaleHollywood International Airport.

Allegiant Air spokeswoman Hilarie Grey blamed a malfunctioning boarding-pass scanner for not catching the mixup. Grey apologized and said the couple were given a full refund.