Texas family searching for lost GoPro with final images of woman killed in Smokies

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The family of a Texas woman killed by a falling tree in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last week is searching for a lost GoPro camera holding her final images.

Laila Jiwani, 46, of Plano, Texas, died after being struck by part of tree felled by high winds while hiking with her husband and their three sons along the Porter Creek Trail on Dec. 27, according to the National Park Service.

Jiwani was a pediatrician at Cook Children's Medical Center in Forth Worth, according to the hospital's website.

According to a Facebook post by her husband, Taufiq Jiwani, she died "immediately upon the severity of the impact."

The couple's 6-year-old son, Jibran, also was struck, suffering compound fractures to his leg and head injuries.

"Doctors said that Laila saved Jibran's life by taking the brunt of the impact," Taufiq Jiwani wrote.

In the midst of the family's grief, Taufiq Jiwani left his GoPro camera on an American Airlines flight from Knoxville to Fort Worth on Saturday night, according to social media posts by his cousin, Aysha Moosa.

"To the person who has this or finds this – you can keep the GoPro, you can keep all of the accessories, all we want is the footage," Moosa wrote in a Facebook post Thursday with the hastag #FindTheGoPro.

"God is great and I know we will be able to retrieve these memories."

An American Airlines' public relations representative reached out to Moosa on Facebook within hours of his online posts to confirm that a search for the camera is underway.

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