A woman traveling from New York to San Diego had no idea she would be so devastated when she landed in sunny California.
Queens schoolteacher Cynthia Tenaglia was in a hotel room on the other side of the country for a family wedding when she realized that her own crown jewels – her great-grandmother's diamond wedding rings and her engagement ring – were missing, according to the Daily News.
A desperate search of the room and rental cars ended in vain as Tenaglia came to grips with the fact that she had lost the precious heirlooms on her JetBlue flight earlier that afternoon, the paper reported. Tenaglia remembered taking her rings off on the plane to rub some lotion on her hands and then getting sidetracked by her 1-year-old boy.
The 31-year-old woman was devastated when she called JetBlue to report the loss of her rings and was told that no one had turned them in. Despite the airline's assurance that they would do everything they could to restore her rings, Tenaglia isn't hopeful.
"It would have been my dream to pass it down to my child," she told the Daily News. "Now I feel I have lost a piece of my family history."
On Friday, a JetBlue baggage handler at Kennedy airport admitted stealing an NYPD sergeant's gun from her luggage and then throwing it away in a Queens sewer when he came under suspicion. Tenaglia's loss does not appear to be a theft.
