Two bags containing money were found on the tarmac but the third was still missing.

A bag containing almost $1 million in Chinese currency has been lost by airline staff at Hong Kong airport following a flight from Auckland.

The bag, along with two others stuffed with cash, fell off a baggage trailer as it turned a corner last Friday, Chinese website Shanghaiist reported.

When the driver realised he had lost part of the precious cargo 10 minutes later, he returned to find just two of the cash bags lying on the tarmac.

Police searched overnight, but could not find the missing money, and it has been reported as a theft.

Thirteen bags, containing 4,080,500 yuan ($13.5 million) in total, were being transported from Auckland to a Bank of China branch when the million-dollar sack went missing. Continue reading →

Quilt found at Orlando International Airport

A Texas family is being reunited with a lost quilt that was found at Orlando Airport Lost and Found.

The Mantanona family lost the important quilt during a recent visit to Orlando.

The family said the quilt is made from their son Jarrett’s shirts. The boy was killed by a drunk driver in 2011.
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Bush Intercontinental Airport’s new lost and found is taking more than 1,000 calls each month from people who have left something behind in the concourse.

Judith Felan gets calls for everything you can imagine. Recently, she spent time trying to recover a young boy’s stuffed animal after his grandmother reported his frog missing.

“He was crying himself to sleep,” Felan said. “He told his grandmother he wanted to die if he didn’t find his frog.”

The boy’s grandmother even sent a photo of the frog, which hasn’t been found.

The Houston Airport lost and found System opened a new storefront in August in terminal E. It allows passengers to talk face to face with a member of the lost and found staff.
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KLM Lost and Found at Amsterdam airport just got a whole lot cuter, with the introduction of an investigative beagle.

Airline KLM has employed a cute, uniform-wearing dog to help reunite passengers with lost items that they leave behind on planes.

The pooch – appropriately named Sherlock – uses its tracking skills to smell the lost item then dash through Amsterdam Schipol Airport to find the appropriate owner. Continue reading →

If you’ve flown in an airplane, then you know the drill. You take off your shoes, belt, and any other items that could set off those body scanners. More often than not, though, those items get left behind.

“If you consider about 2 million people travel everyday at airports across the country, passengers are constantly forgetting or losing items at our security check points,” said Nico Melendez, a spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Those items that are left behind at the Sacramento International Airport end up at the lost and found. Continue reading →

Right now we’re in the height of summer travel season, so you and your family might be heading to the airport soon.

Every now and then, something you bring on your trip is left behind at Logan.

As you might imagine the airport’s lost and found area is full of items, and some of what is left behind might surprise you.

“They come to the checkpoint they’re going somewhere they’re in a rush and they leave full suitcases,” TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said.

It’s not just suitcases, it’s everything you can think of and some things you wouldn’t even believe

“We’ve had raw food turned in. Somebody left behind half pound of raw ground beef. We’ve had a training dummy for medical students it was a lower female torso it was showing people how to deliver babies. It was a little shocking when we opened up the cabinet and that was right there,” TSA officer Tom Dasher said.

According to TSA 52,000 people make their way through the security checkpoints at Logan every day and many lose their items right in the bins.

Laptops, cell phones and multiple bags of clothes.

TSA keeps the items in the Boston airport lost and found for 30 days, after that high value items like phones laptops and jewelry are sent to TSA headquarters in Washington.

There their data is wiped and their given to other government agencies to use. Clothes are given to people in need.

“Lost and found clothing goes to homeless veterans so that’s a really nice thing” Farbstein said.

All of the lost items are tagged and the agents work hard to reconnect the owner to their lost item before the 30 days is up.

“We’ve had some people screech with joy and jump up and down, just really happy,” Dasher said.

Last month alone the TSA says 1,800 items were left at Logan. Agents say taking a second look inside in those security bins can save you a lot of time and aggravation.

Read more: https://www.whdh.com/story/26001416/logan-lost-and-found-is-full-of-surprises

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A Florida rabbi who recently discovered seven tefillin sets in an unclaimed airline baggage store in Alabama was able to successfully restore most of the prayer accessories to their owners with the help of social media.

“HELP! HELP! HELP! We went to a store today in Alabama that sells unclaimed baggage from all over the world. We found Tefilin!!!” Rabbi Uri Pilichowski wrote on Facebook on July 2.

Photos the rabbi posted of the small Scripture-filled boxes, which observant Jews wrap around their arm and place on their forehead during morning prayers, were then shared on the social media site more than 1,000 times.

By the next day six of the seven owners were found, Pilichowski accounced on Facebook. Four of them live in New York, according to New York Daily News.

Pilichowski said that the Unclaimed Baggage Center was selling each pair for $45.

“I was very surprised,” Pilichowski told the Daily News on finding the pairs of tefillin. “We bought them all.”

One of the claimed sets was a family heirloom belonging to David Malka, a former chef for the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Crown Heights. Malka died of pancreatic cancer in October at the age of 58.

Before Malka passed away he gifted his cherished tefillin set to his oldest grandson Abie, who was due to celebrate his bar mitzvah. A few months later the pair went missing during a layover in Charlotte, N.C., as the family was headed to Cancun for Passover.

“At some point it was misplaced,” Yossi Malka, David’s son, said. “It was devastating. I did not want to share it with the rest of my family.”

Yossi Malka returned to Charlotte Airport Lost and Found and searched the center but to no availability.

Yossi Malka and Pilichowski met years ago at a Passover charity camp in Ukraine. When the Florida rabbi found the tefillin, which had a tag inside with the last name “Malka,” he reached out to his old friend, who now lives in Los Angeles.

“I was very, very shocked,” Yossi said about getting call. “I was excited like crazy. It’s just amazing.”

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You might be hitting the airport to fly off on vacation this summer. But every now and then, something you brought with you stays there.

As you might imagine, an BWI airport Lost and Found bin fills up with a lot of stuff every summer. And as we found out, it is not always what you would expect.

BWI Airport is a place where 30,000 people come and go every day. But about 40 times a day, 1,200 times a month, somebody loses something at a Transportation SecurityAdministration checkpoint.

But it turns out all of that stuff you have lost just doesn’t disappear. It goes to a special place — a place called Lost and Found.

“Every day, we have a TSA officer that goes checkpoint to checkpoint and brings back all the lost and found items,” said TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein.

They literally see it all here. Popular things lost range from keys to ID cards to a museum of cellphones. There are many forgotten prescriptions too. Did you lose your laptop? It’s probably here.

Most people simply forget the stuff when going through security checkpoints.

“We see a variety of items,” said Farbstein. “Common items are belts because a lot of people have to take their belts off.”

Going through our treasure hunt here, we found hats, prescription glasses and sunglasses. In fact, just about any type of sunglasses you can think of are here.

“I think it’s really odd when you spot something like a walker or a cane,” Farbstein told us.

But what is the oddest thing we found? A fairy wand which may or may not have run out of spells.

So the next time your fly, remember to hold onto your stuff before your stuff gets held onto in here.

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Chester, a seven-month-old Scottish Fold kitten who was lost by Air Canada at the Montreal airport last month, has been found safe and sound — if a little skinny.

Owner Amanda Stewart, who lives in Surrey, B.C., posted a picture of Chester to Facebook on Wednesday along with the comments: “Omg omg omg” and “Hi everyone ITS BEEN CONFIRMED CHESTER HAS BEEN FOUND ALIVE. He is on his way to the vets right now.”

Stewart confirmed to CBC News that Chester had been found by a woman, also named Amanda, who works at the Montreal-Trudeau airport lost and found where Chester was lost.

“I’m happy. I’m just hoping that he’s OK right now. That he’s healthy,” Stewart told CBC News. “He seems to be skinny.”

Isabelle Arthur, a spokeswoman for Air Canada lost and found, said the airline was advised by the Montreal Airport Authority team this morning that Chester had been located.

“They subsequently delivered him to our cargo team. As soon as we confirmed it was Chester, we advised his owner. Chester is now at a local veterinarian for a full checkup,” Arthur said.

She said Air Canada was making arrangements to reunite Stewart and Chester as soon as possible and will pay for all the expenses.

“We will be taking care of everything, including reuniting Chester with his owner,” Arthur said.

Stewart had bought Chester from a Quebec breeder for $1,200 more than a month ago. However, the cat managed to escape from its airline-approved cat carrier on May 21 while at the Montreal airport en route to Vancouver.

Stewart had set up a Facebook page to help co-ordinate searchers in Montreal. Just yesterday, she posted a message that said Chester had been gone so long that it wasn’t looking good. “He should have been seen by now,” she wrote.

“I had great amounts of awesome people just looking in the neighbourhoods for me. He wasn’t found in the neighbourhoods though, he was actually found inside the airport fence — along the fence is what I got — and he was spotted and then trapped this morning,” she said from Surrey, B.C.

Now Chester is at the vet getting a checkup, accompanied by an Air Canada employee who had been helping Stewart on her own time. Stewart said Chester weighs just five pounds, but is eating and drinking.

She said she hopes to get him back soon, but wants to make sure he’s in good shape before putting him on a plane.

Air Canada could have done more: owner

Stewart told CBC News that while she’s very happy that Chester was found, she is still upset with what she said was a lack of communication from the airline to the rest of the airport.

She said Air Canada could have done more to co-ordinate search efforts.

To get him back home, Stewart said she hopes that at the very least, Air Canada will allow Chester inside the cabin instead of putting him in cargo. Ideally, she said, they’d pay to have her husband fly to Montreal to collect the cat.

“I don’t want him in cargo at all.”

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With an average 23,000 people racing through security on a daily basis at Dulles, you can understand why many items are left behind. Those items are kept in a small office on the ground floor of the airport. It’s the TSA’s lost and found.

The most often forgotten item? Belts. But there are plenty of laptops, cell phones, and even identification cards too.

“We’ve had dentures that people have left,” said James White, a TSA agent. “We’ve had hearing aids, glasses, car seats, stuff like you wouldn’t expect people to leave.”

Agents have also seen items that passengers probably wish they had not forgotten – from adult toys to a shrunken head.

With the strict guidelines regarding liquids, belts, shoes, and electronics, the number of items left behind has grown in recent years. It’s why some passengers approach this process like a science.

“Usually before I get in the line I’ll make sure I’ll put all that stuff inside my bag,” explained Chris Fischer, passenger. “And then it’s still in my bag when I get out instead of all over the place.”

Often passengers will call and recover their lost items. Those forgotten for more than thirty days get sent to the state’s surplus in Richmond.

Read more: https://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/04/a-look-inside-dulles-lost-and-found-101965.html#ixzz30lqTgHis

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