A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby on flights, and says it's because American Airlines' booking system can't handle her age

• An elderly woman named Patricia says American Airlines keeps getting her age wrong.
• The computer can't process that Patricia was born in 1922, not 2022.
• Airlines have increasingly adopted computerization across systems, but glitches often affect the most vulnerable passengers.

American Airlines cabin crew were expecting to look after a baby on board a flight from Chicago to Marquette, Michigan, this weekend.

But sitting in the seat designated for the infant, they instead found a 101-year-old woman, according to a BBC reporter who was also on the flight.

The centenarian, Patricia, had booked the seat for an adult but laughed off the incident with the confused cabin crew.

Patricia told the BBC: "It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I'm an old lady!"