A professional dancer who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon terror bombing said American Airlines lost her luggage containing her prosthetic — but fortunately found it a day later.
A desperate Adrianne Haslet-Davis discovered that her luggage had been misplaced, and the saga played out on Twitter.
American Airlines spokesman Joshua Freed said the airline was “terribly sorry” for losing the bag and was working to get it back to Haslet-Davis as soon as possible.
Haslet-Davis tweeted Friday her bag “went to a country I’ve never been to” and said the airline was trying to find it. Later Friday, she returned to Twitter with the good news that the bag had been found.
“We’re sorry this happened,” Freed told the Los Angeles Times. “Her bag has been located, and we will reunite her with it as soon as possible.”
Haslet-Davis was near the finish line of the marathon and lost her leg just below her knee when pressure-cooker bombs set by brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev on April 15, 2013, exploded.
Tamerlan was killed by cops during a desperate manhunt, but Dzhokhar was found guilty at a trial last summer that featured emotional testimony from Haslet-Davis.
She testified that she feared she would die as she crawled to safety after being maimed by the second of the two explosions. Three people were killed — including a young boy — and more than 250 were wounded, with many losing limbs.
Dzhokhar was sentenced to death and has been behind bars at the federal supermax prison in Colorado.
Haslet-Davis danced again publicly less than a year later at a March 2014 TED Conference in British Columbia thanks to a prosthesis made for her at MIT’s Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.
Despite the luggage inconvenience, she took the high road after learning her leg had been recovered.