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Million-dollar bag missing at Hong Kong airport
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…
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Family’s priceless quilt found by airport janitor
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…
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Reclaiming lost items at Bush Intercontinental Airport
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…
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KLM employs Sherlock the dog detective to find owners of forgotten items left on planes… by tracking their scent!
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…
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Tons of Valuable Items are Left Behind at Airport Security Checkpoints
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…
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Logan lost and found is full of surprises
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…
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Rabbi Returns Lost Tefillin Sets From Charlotte Airport Lost and Found
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…
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Behind the scenes at BWI Airport Lost and Found
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…
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Cat found after being lost by Air Canada
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…
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A look inside Dulles airport lost and found
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…
