Teen bound for N.C. makes Sacramento

SAN ANTONIO, July 10 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old San Antonio girl's mother said the teen inadvertently wound up in California after she was supposed to board a flight to Raleigh, N.C.

Sondra Burney said her daughter, Morgan, boarded what she thought was an ExpressJet Airlines flight to Raleigh for a visit with her grandmother, but discovered she had gotten on the wrong plane after the jet arrived in Sacramento, KSAT-TV, San Antonio, reported Thursday.

"She found out after she arrived and after she talked to her grandmother that she was in California and had no idea," Burney said.

ExpressJet Airlines said it was investigating how the teenager ended up on the wrong plane. It said she was flown to North Carolina free of charge and given a voucher for a free flight.

However, she doesn't have much time to use it -- the airline said Wednesday it will cease operations in September.