For all those who hate regional jets, here’s another reason to dislike them: Your luggage might fall out of the cargo hold. Huh??

Berman’s garment bag—stuffed with University of Notre Dame sweaters, a vintage school jacket, Notre Dame drinking cups and other trinkets—was recovered from a Chicago-area rail yard after it slid out the open cargo door of an airliner that departed from Midway Airport on Sunday morning.
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Meanwhile, the parents of a 9-year-old girl were trying to comfort their daughter over the loss of two newly purchased American Girl dolls that were inside a duffel bag that also fell out of the Delta Connection plane on Sunday. The duffel remained missing on Tuesday. “My little girl is devastated by this loss,” Patrick Telan, a litigation attorney from Orlando, said of his daughter, Abby Ann.

Thankfully, the devastating loss of her dollies wasn’t accompanied by the death of ground-based rail yard workers.