Article: Sheepdog hunted in O'Hare `takeoff'

Korsair is missing.

He never quite made it from O'Hare Airport to Lansing, Mich., where someone awaits him.

He chose to say goodbye to his United Airlines escorts and take off into the concrete yonder.

His escorts couldn't stop him, you see, because Korsair the Belgian sheepdog doesn't understand English.

"The dog only understands French," said Northwest Side trainer Mike Spacucello, who helped police search for Korsair after being contacted by owner Daniel Paul, a native of France.

Korsair, a 3-year-old Malinois, had just flown in from Maine on Monday when he escaped from his kennel on a baggage cart as United handlers prepared to load him onto a connecting flight to Lansing, ...

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