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Erin Murphy Winner of GivingTuesday Shares Her Rescue Flight Experience!

31 Mar 2022 · 2 min

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In this video, Erin Murphy explains how she was randomly selected as a fundraiser participant for Pilots to the Rescue and joined Michael Schneider on a rescue flight. She recounts her aviation background, starting to fly at 14 in Scranton, studying aviation in college, and working for Continental (now United Airlines) while flying aircraft such as the Pilatus PC‑12 and Cape Air. During the mission she helped transport a rescue dog named Barry, noting his prominent underbite and describing his charm as a “perfectly imperfect” pet. Erin praises Pilots to the Rescue’s eye‑catching social‑media campaign, which informed her about the fundraiser and led to her participation. She urges viewers to support the organization by fostering, adopting, cleaning shelters, spreading the word, or donating, and provides the contact website and social‑media invitation.

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Hi, I am Erin Murphy, and I am here with Michael Schneider today with Pilots to the Rescue because I was selected as a fundraiser participant, and I, um, was a random selectee to join Michael on a rescue flight, which I was over the moon to join him on. I started flying at the age of 14 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and I went to college for it, continued with flight instruction, flying a Pilatus PC-12, Cape Air, and then I got hired at Continental in 2006, which is now United Airlines. And I love flying international, and I love traveling. I took Ashai to rescue dog Barry today. He has a significant underbite like my dog Zeke, and I absolutely fall in love with perfectly imperfect dogs, as I like to call them. I think their imperfections, it what is what gives them their charm, and whoever fosters that dog will be lucky, and whoever adopts that dog I think will be even luckier. I got introduced to Pilots to the Rescue's fundraiser through social media, and I think the social media that Pilots to the Rescue is executing is phenomenal and eye-catching, and because of that content, I became informed about how to be a participant in the fundraiser and then have an option to come along on a mission. And that is what led me here to the rescue mission today, and I loved it. You can volunteer by fostering, adopting, helping clean the shelters. You can volunteer by spreading the word. Even just talking about it to people is effective as, you know, coming up with a monetary donation. I am thrilled to close out this day with a successful flight and seeing these dogs off to a new home. If anyone is interested in seeing these dogs, please contact pilots to the rescue dot org. Follow them on social media. You won't be disappointed.