Ted Orris retired from Southwest Airlines after nearly 16 years with the company. His mentee, an aviation photographer, captured his final flight. (Courtesy: Ted Orris)A retired pilot went out in style after the aviation photographer he mentored stunningly captured his final take-off.Southwest Airlines tweeted the story on Saturday.
The company posted breathtaking photos of Captain Ted Orris’s final takeoff with details of how the touching story came together.
Orris, 59, told FOX Television Stations that back in 2015 a then-teenager, Ryan Patterson, was on his plane during a stopover in Phoenix.