Overview
- Lufthansa confirmed Friday it had found the missing Oscar in Frankfurt and is arranging its return to co‑director Pavel Talankin.
- The statuette went missing after a TSA agent at New York’s JFK barred Talankin from carrying it on because it could be used as a weapon.
- With no checked bag, TSA boxed the award and sent it to the hold, and it did not arrive with the passenger in Frankfurt.
- After David Borenstein’s Instagram posts with photos and tags to TSA and Lufthansa, the airline apologized and opened an internal review of what happened.
- Borenstein also questioned whether staff would have treated Talankin the same if he were a famous actor or spoke fluent English, raising a fairness concern about frontline decisions.