A figure skater said to have a ticket on Wednesday’s doomed American Airlines flight was actually bound for another city entirely, he tells the Daily Beast, contrary to a viral report online. Jon Maravilla said his dog’s size was the reason a gate agent denied him boarding for a flight on Delta Air Lines to Atlanta—not to the nation’s capital.

Jon Maravilla said he was not able to board a Delta Airlines flight from Wichita to Atlanta because of the size of his dog

There’s a story about Figure skater Jon Maravilla missing the flight from Wichita, Kansas to Washington DC that ultimately crashed into a helicopter and into the Potomac River, in which the size of Maravilla’s dog was the reason he missed the flight.