Flight 800 Postcard Finally Finishes Trip

Last summer, a 12-year-old French girl visiting New York mailed a postcard to her grandparents back home. They received it last week - nine months after it fell into the ocean along with TWA Flight 800.

Tattered and stained by seawater, the card showing New York’s skyline finally reached the town of Fontaine-les-Dijon, along with an apology from the U.S. Postal Service, a French newspaper reported Wednesday.

“The enclosed mail piece was included in the shipment which crashed off the coast of Long Island, New York, last July. It has been under custody of agencies investigating the cause of the crash,” the Postal Service said in a letter published by the French daily Le Bien Public, in the eastern city of Dijon.

The girl, identified only as Anais, dropped the card in the mail the day before Flight 800 exploded and crashed July 17, killing all 230 people on board.