Dad Hires A Helicopter And Finds His Missing Son

We’ve all heard stories about mother’s intuition saving the life of a child. But what you don’t often hear about is father’s intuition. Well, this is one of those stories. Tony Lethbridge has a 17-year-old son named Samuel. And like most parents of teens who are still new to driving, Tony keeps an eye on his son's comings and goings. Samuel and his friends had been at the coast for the weekend and Samuel was driving back early in the morning to make it to work on time.

Samuel had made plans to see his girlfriend on his lunch break but he never showed. It was early that Monday morning and Tony couldn’t sleep. Something inside of him knew that there was something wrong. That's when Tony realized it had been a full 24 hours that he hadn’t heard from Sam, despite reaching out time and time again. Tony just couldn’t keep that sick feeling in his gut down any longer, so he decided to call the police.

They brushed Tony off telling him kids this age usually run away and he’ll probably turn up eventually. But Tony knew that his son wouldn't do that and something was seriously wrong. He remembered that a few years before, a young man about his son’s age had crashed on the same path home his son would be driving. Because of the terrain beside the road the other young man hadn’t been found for 5 days and sadly passed away. Tony couldn’t shake that memory and he refused to let the same thing happen to his son. So Tony marched into a local airfield determined to save his Samuel.

Thankfully helicopter pilot Lee Mitchell could sense the father’s anguish and agreed to help him look for his son. After only 10 minutes in the area, Lee found a car that looked exactly like Samuels and called Tony who was driving the stretch of road also searching. Tony rushed to the site as they called the authorities as Lee hovered above in the helicopter. Tony feared that his son was dead, but when Samuel moved his head Tony let out a wave of relief.