Flight attendant saves a young disheveled girl from human trafficking

The teenage girl was saved from human trafficking by an Alaska Airlines flight attendant Sheila Frederick after noticing something was wrong on a flight from Seattle to San Francisco. She noticed a disheveled girl traveling with a well-dressed older man.

The 49-year old attendant engaged them in conversation, however, the older man ordered him not to talk to the blonde hair girl sitting on aisle 10. Frederick said that at the back of his mind that there is something wrong. The girl was about 14 to 15 years old.

The flight attendant left a note in the bathroom of the plane. According to NBC News, the girl replied on the note saying she needed help.

The vigilant flight attendant informed the pilots. When the plane arrived in San Francisco, police were already at the terminal waiting. She left her phone number on the note, and a few weeks later, the girl called her saying she is now attending college.

"I've been a flight attendant for ten years, and it's like I am going all the way back to when I was in training, and I was like I could have seen these young girls and young boys and didn't even know," Frederick told WTSP.

Hundreds of flight attendants were trained by flight attendant Nancy Rivard, founder of Airline Ambassadors to spot the signs for human tracking. Pieces of training warn aircraft personnel to guard for someone who may seem to be nervous, bruised, disheveled or who won't answer questions, or make eye contact or communicate.

Big events like the Super Bowl, which fuel sex trafficking. Sex work and human trafficking often go hand-in-hand. Rivard wants to ensure that flight attendants working routes in and out of Houston are able to spot the signs of a victim who needs help. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement captured 2,000 human traffickers and identified 400 victims last year.