Airline Loses Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor's Prosthetic Leg

A professional dancer who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombing said American Airlines lost her luggage, which included her prosthetic leg.

Adrianne Haslet-Davis tweeted Thursday night: "u lost my luggage w over $250k of leg & dance parts" and posted Friday morning that her bag "went to a country I've never been to."

Her luggage was later found, according to Haslet-Davis, who thanked American Airlines for their help and said she was collaborating with the airline on "something huge" after discussing a "great need for amputees" traveling by plane. [[352284751, C]]

Haslet-Davis lost her lower left leg in the April 2013 attacks. She danced again publicly at a March 2014 TED Conference in British Columbia, thanks to a prosthesis made for her at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.

American Airlines spokesman Joshua Freed said the airline was "terribly sorry" for losing the bag.

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