A 1-year-old passenger Kenley left her doll behind during a recent Delta flight.
It was not just a doll but an emotion for the girl as it features a photo of her military father who is deployed, as well as a recording of his voice.
Kenley’s mother Arielle Britton, appealed on social media for airline and airport personnel to track down her daughter’s missing toy a plush “Daddy Doll.”
“I go everywhere she goes because her dada is deployed,” Britton wrote on Facebook in the voice of the Daddy Doll. “We were travelling back home yesterday and I seemed to have gotten lost somewhere between the Hartford, Connecticut, airport and the Atlanta airport.”
She added: “I have a special good night message that Kenley’s dada recorded before he left, that she listens to every night. I also have red and blue stars on the back.”
The post soon went viral and the employees succeeded in searching the doll after a cleaning crew found it still aboard their flight. Delta decided to meet Kenley to return the doll to her.
“We found your doll, Kenley! He’s missed you, but don’t worry. We’re bringing him home. ,” wrote Delta on Twitter, sharing a photo of the doll strapped in aboard a plane.
Delta employees returned the doll to the little girl at the Savannah Airport along with a few other gifts from the airline. Kenley hugged the doll and FaceTimed with her father.
“Mission accomplished! Kenley and her doll are together again,” Delta wrote alongside photos of the happy reunion.
A spokesperson for the airline told USA Today they are “happy” to have been “able to work together to return this special doll to Kenley.”
According to the Daddy Doll website, the company has been selling this product since 2005. ”Daddy Doll is back home safe and sound and @delta not only showed up, but they showed out!”
”They made sure Daddy doll got home ASAP and brought some Delta swag for Kenley, including her favorite @lotusbiscoffus cookies! Which helped her learn a new word, she now says cookie,” Britton wrote on Sunday.
She added: ”We are still so humbled by everyone who helped and everything that was done to make this happen so quickly!”
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