Elderly couple put on wrong flight; end up in New York, not Michigan

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A 96-year-old woman and an 89-year-old man were wheeled to the wrong gate at a 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. An Allegiant Air spokeswoman blamed a malfunctioning boarding-pass scanner for not catching the mix-up...