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“We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”

They were boarding a whale safari boat tour when they learned their flight the following day had been canceled.

Fry landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday afternoon on her way home from a solo trip to Scotland, expecting to wait about six hours before boarding a flight home.

His father followed behind, boarding an overnight bus to the capital, and carrying the family’s land title deed to post bond.

Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when it collapsed last Monday while undergoing construction.