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Plane Delay Costs Woman a Cool Million18 December 2001WISCONSIN –– As reported by the Wisconsin State Journal: "A delayed flight from Dallas to Madison kept a retired Middleton woman from collecting $1 million in a contest requiring the winner's presence at Ho-Chunk Casino in Baraboo late Saturday night. "…[Barbara Huffman] had planned to attend the drawing - which guaranteed a winner from among several thousand Players Club members who went to Ho-Chunk between Oct. 8 and Dec. 14 - but her flight landed at Dane County Regional Airport at 11:30 p.m. As a result, Huffman chose not to go to the casino. "Contacted on Sunday, Huffman was unaware she could have won. "`Oh, my word,' she said. `That makes me ill.' "…`We planned to go from the airport up there. But we were stranded in the Dallas airport because of Tulsa's airport delays. You're at the mercy of the airports.'..." |