No safety system, camera, or any other technology could have prevented the disaster that occurred at the airport that day in August.
Without the premonition of a flight attendant and the courage to follow her instinct, the lives of two teenage girls could have been ruined.
Denice Miracle works at the international airport of Sacramento in California, United States. Every shift, she goes through hundreds of plane tickets and exchanges words with strangers. She has seen a lot, and therefore does not react unnecessarily fierce.
But when two teenage girls aged 15 and 17 were supposed to fly alone to New York, they immediately caught Denice’s full attention.
Attention to details
There was nothing wrong with the girls’ tickets. It was all about Denice’s bad gut feeling, and fortunately, she chose to listen to it.
The girls had first-class tickets for the flight from California to New York.
“I think it was the way they looked at each other. Back and forth, as if they weren’t really safe. Then they texted someone with the phone, and that person gave them an answer,” Denice tells CBS Sacramento.
Called the police
Denice reacted to the fact that the purchased first-class tickets were very expensive, especially for two underage girls. She then took her computer and checked how the tickets were paid for. What she could see was that the tickets were bought online, with a credit card.
“This doesn’t feel right,” says Denice, who thought before deciding to call the police.
The police called Denice and came to the airport to talk to the teenage girls. It turned out that Denice did exactly the right thing by calling.
Invited by stranger on Instagram
The girls had booked and paid for the tickets by a man who had contacted them on Instagram. He had offered them travel and accommodation for a weekend in New York in exchange for doing some modeling work for him.
The girls had told their parents that they were staying together, so they knew neither about the trip nor the man who had contacted the girls.
Denice quickly saw the uncertainty of the girls and contacted the police before the girls had time to board the plane.
The police believe it is common for young girls to be deceived in this way. When they searched for the man who contacted the girls, he had deleted his Instagram profile.
The trip was canceled, and Denice is considered a hero by the police.
“She was their miracle that day,” the police told CBS Sacramento.
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