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Article: How a tiny ladybug changed the world for a pilot on 9/11.
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- September 24, 2007
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Byline: Tiana Velez
Sep. 24--At a time when Dave Dunlap needed most to remain calm, it was a solitary ladybug that came to his rescue.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Dunlap was co-pilot on Delta Flight 1989, the third flight scheduled to take off from Boston for Los Angeles -- after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.
Dunlap's plane, though forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland, was safe. The other two flights' fate as the planes that hit the World Trade Center has been etched in history.
Long after the events of that day, it was the memory of that small ladybug calmly landing on his cockpit window ...