Woman says US Airways lost husband's ashes
22.02.12
Angeline O’Grady’s husband, Brian, died from cancer last October.
"He was a great guy -- he doesn't deserve this," O'Grady said.
On Nov. 1 she was on her way to England to scatter Brian's ashes in his hometown of Hull when the airline lost her husband’s remains, she says.
O'Grady says Transportation Security Administration officials who told her that she could not take her husband’s ashes, which were in a box, through airport security. Directed to go back to the US Airways counter, O’Grady put the ashes into her checked luggage and had a "Fragile" sticker put on the suitcase, she told NBC Philadelphia.
She got off the plane and drove to her sister-in-law's home in her husband's hometown.
"When I opened the baggage and everything the ashes weren't there," O'Grady said.
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The Trumbauersville, Pa. woman says she contacted US Air and her son sent e-mails, but to no avail.
Source: msnbc.com