From Texas comes the story of a girl named Beatrice who was taken to meet the captain on a flight home from Tokyo.

Beatrice is an American Girl Doll, and her flight home would see her reunited with her loving owner, 9-year-old Valentina Dominguez who was left devastated after losing the doll on a similar trip a month before.

Returning to Plano, Texas from a family trip a Japan, Valentina and her parents frantically searched through the luggage trying to find her best friend, to no avail. Her father Rudy reasoned they must have lost Beatrice at Haneda Airport, or perhaps even left her on the plane.

Fortunately, a social media post about the doll alerted a friend, who alerted a neighbor, who alerted American Airlines First Officer of 30 years, James Danen.

Describing his readiness to help others as something "in his nature," he got in contact with the lost and found staff at Turkish Airlines, and was directed to their workers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo who had by that time found Beatrice.

"It's my nature. I like helping people… that's just what I like doing," said Danen, adding that he just so happens to fly to Tokyo often. "I was really glad I could do something nice for somebody."

It took Danen two such trips to finally get his hands on Beatrice.

Last Monday, Danen, who lives just a few miles from the Dominguez Household, personally escorted Beatrice back into the loving arms of her best friend.

"Thank you! Was she well-behaved on the flight?" Valentina asked Jim who brought back some Japanese candy and a map of the world showing all the places Beatrice had visited on her travels, according to WFAA.

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