High-Flying Heroes: Airline Reunites Little Boy With His Most Treasured Possession

You might want to have a box of tissues on standby as you read this story because it is, without a doubt, one of the most touching things that we’ve ever read. A US airline went above and beyond the call of duty recently in order to reunite a little boy with something very important.

WDAY TV reports that seven-year-old Cole Holzer accidently left a “much treasured” piece of clothing on one of Delta’s planes during a family trip to san Diego. Before you start guessing, it wasn’t an expensive piece of clothing or an old baby blanket. Cole left behind “daddy’s shirt.”

Cole and the Nike shirt are absolutely inseperable, mainly because the piece of clothing is the last reminder that Cole has of his father.

“...He will lay out and spray his dad’s cologne on it and cuddle up with it and sing the daddy song to go to bed,” said Cole’s mammy, Tonya Holzer.

Cole’s dad, Brian, died two years ago in a freak accident. He had been putting up Christmas lights and fell. He was wearing the Nike shirt when he passed away.

Cole and his dad, Brian

Understandably, Cole was absolutely devastated when he realised that he had left the shirt behind on the airplane.

“We get in the car... and he suddenly screams ‘I lost it, I can’t find it, I can’t find it,’” said Tonya.

Luckily for Cole, Kelly Cruchet, a friend of the family, contacted Delta Airlines in the hope of getting the piece of clothing back.

When the shirt didn’t turn up during a sweep of the plane, the flight attendants wen’t one step closer for the little boy: they started searching through the rubbish bins.

“We have ground crews looking through the garbage. And I’m going to help,” one Delta attendant told Kelly.

The crew eventually found the shirt and immediately contacted Cole and his mammy. It wasn’t long before the little boy was reunited with the shirt he loved so much.

“As a friend stated, ‘Delta allowed a daddy to still be there for his little boy’ even if he can’t be with him on earth. You all went so far above and beyond... you are my favourite people I have never met!” wrote Kelly in a letter to the staff who helped out.

There you have it: solid proof that good, decent people still exist in the world.