TAMPA, Fla. - Employees at US Airways are looking into how an 83-year-old woman in a wheelchair flying from New York to Tampa, Fla., instead found herself at an airport in Puerto Rico.

Elfriede Kuemmel had gone to Newburgh, N.Y., for a day trip on Monday. Kuemmel’s family said that somehow, an attendant on a connecting flight in Philadelphia wheeled Kuemmel to the wrong flight.