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Airline Puts Children on Wrong Flight, Again

From Times Wire Reports

For the second time in less than a month, America West Airlines employees have placed young children traveling without an adult on the wrong connecting flight.

Krista Spears, 11, and her 8-year-old sister, Sierra, were on their way home to Lakeside, Calif., on Saturday after visiting their father in Texas. They were supposed to take a connecting flight from Phoenix to Lindbergh Field here, but instead ended up at Ontario International Airport.

The girls arrived about 10 p.m., nearly five hours after the flight they were supposed to take had been scheduled to land.

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On Friday, Tempe, Ariz.-based America West announced that after Sept. 10, it will not fly unaccompanied young children on any flights except nonstops.

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