A woman is suing US Airways, saying that the airline lost her husband's ashes during a flight to England, according to the Associated Press.
Angelina O'Grady, who is from Trumbauersville, Pennsylvania, was flying to England to honor the last wish of her late husband, Brian, who wanted to be back in their hometown of Hull, England after he passed away from cancer in 2011.
"She feels that she failed to honor her husband's last request that his ashes be scattered along with his mother's," Bill Goldman Jr., the attorney representing O'Grady, told the Associated Press.
She checked her baggage before boarding her flight to England at Philadelphia International Airport, but wanted to take her husband's ashes as carry-on luggage. However, at the security checkpoint, she said she was told that she couldn't carry them on and was directed to return to the US Airways counter.
Ashes are a permitted carry-on item, and there is no information as to why O'Grady wasn't allowed to carry them onboard her flight.
O'Grady brought the ashes back to the baggage desk, and was told they would be checked with her other luggage, but upon her arrival in England, they weren't there with her other luggage.
"When I opened the baggage and everything the ashes weren't there," O'Grady told NBC10. "My kids, everybody's upset and yet US Airways just blows us off.
"He's a great guy - he doesn't deserve this," she said of her late husband.
"They obviously made the choice, through incompetence and outrageous behavior, to determine his last resting place," Goldman said.
As part of the lawsuit, they are asking for an investigation into what happened.
A US airways spokesman, Andrew Christie, told NBC10 that an internal investigation didn't uncover any information that indicated the airline was responsible for the loss of the ashes.
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