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Flight attendants train to spot human trafficking

By Kalhan Rosenblatt, nbcnews.com

Shelia Fedrick said she instinctively felt something was wrong the moment she saw the girl with greasy blonde hair sitting in the window seat of aisle 10 on a flight from Seattle to San Francisco.

The girl “looked like she had been through pure hell,” said Fedrick, 49, a flight attendant working for Alaska Airlines. Fedrick guessed that the girl was about 14 or 15 years old, travelling with a notably well-dressed older man. The stark contrast between the two set off alarm bells in her head.

Fedrick tried to engage them in conversation, but the man became defensive, she said.

Read more at https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flight-attendants-train-spot-human-trafficking-n716181?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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