A girl named Beatrice was brought to see the captain on a flight home from Tokyo, according to a Texas tale.
Beatrice, an American Girl Doll, would return home with her devoted owner, 9-year-old Valentina Dominguez,
who was heartbroken after losing the doll on a trip of a similar nature a month earlier.
After a family trip to Japan, Valentina and her parents hurriedly checked the luggage in an attempt to locate her best friend,
but they were unsuccessful. Beatrice must have been left on the plane or lost at Haneda Airport, according to her father Rudy.
Fortunately, a social media post about the doll caught the attention of a friend, who then informed a neighbor, who informed James Danen, a 30-year veteran first officer of American Airlines.
He got in touch with Turkish Airlines’ lost and found staff and was led to their employees at Haneda Airport in Tokyo
who by that point had located Beatrice. He later described his willingness to assist others as something that was ‘in his nature.’
It’s just who I am. Danen stated, ‘I enjoy assisting people… that’s just what I enjoy doing,
and I also happen to frequently fly to Tokyo. ‘I was really happy that I could help someone out,’
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