N.Y. Woman Reunited with Family Heirloom She Lost on JetBlue Flight Thanks to Help from Strangers: 'So Lucky'
Diana Freedman realized she lost her grandmother's necklace after a trip to California
A New York woman has been reunited with a special family heirloom thanks to some help from a group of strangers who helped her track it down after the piece of jewelry went missing on a JetBlue flight.
Diana Freedman, of Long Island, had just traveled from California to New York in December when she realized she had lost her grandmother's necklace, which she had been wearing, according to local ABC affiliate WABC-TV.
Freedman was admittedly “devastated” when she realized the necklace, which has been in her family for nearly a century, was missing.
"I kept trying to re-track in my brain where it could possibly be,” she recalled.
So Freedman went on the hunt for her necklace and received help from some good Samaritans along the way.
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First, a deputy at Palm Beach International Airport helped her view security footage that showed she was not wearing the necklace made by her grandfather as she was leaving the terminal.
Then, Freedman shared a post on the "Long Islands Amazing Moms" Facebook group and explained her story, where Penny Neferis, JetBlue's head of business continuity, happened too see her plea for help.
"When I saw it, I immediately was like I can track that plane down, I know where that plane is right now," Neferis recalled to WABC.
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After scouring the lost and found items at Palm Beach International Airport, the necklace was recovered.
The jewelry was back in Freedman’s hands 48 hours after it went missing.
"It was happy tears for a long time after that, and I still feel it right now,” Freedman said following the reunion. “I feel so lucky and so blessed.”
Tom Hungerman, the JetBlue Stations Operator who searched the lost and found drawers, said “it was amazing” to help make something this special happen during the holiday season.
"You don't always get these opportunities to create that magic moment, that holiday miracle, if you will," he told WABC.
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