Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 787 returns to airport after mother forgets her baby at the airport

Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 787 returns to airport after mother leaves her baby in terminal

By Dario Leone
Mar 11 2019
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“This flight is requesting to come back…a passenger forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing,” ATC operative.

Kuala Lumpur-bound Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV832 set off from Jeddah, but the pilot requested to turn back after a passenger told crew she had forgotten her baby in the boarding area of the terminal.

A video in which the Boeing 787-9 (B789) pilot can be heard relaying the story to air traffic control was uploaded to YouTube and has since gone viral, with more than 50,000 views.

(Click here to watch the video).

“May God be with us. Can we come back or what?” the pilot says over the radio.

“This flight is requesting to come back…a passenger forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing,” an ATC operative can be heard saying.

The pilot is asked to repeat the request, to which he replies: “We told you, a passenger left her baby in the terminal and refuses to continue the flight.”

“Ok, head back to the gate,” says ATC. “This is totally a new one for us!”

No further information on how the mother managed to forget her child has been released.

It’s not the first controversial air travel-related parenting decision.

As reported by The Independent, In 2017, a photo of a woman who’d left her baby on the airport floor while she used her phone, with the caption “idiot”, quickly went viral.

However, the Illinois mother, Molly Lensing, was quick to defend her actions, explaining that a technical glitch with Delta had left her stranded in Colorado airport for more than 20 hours with her then two-month-old daughter.

“Anastasia had been held or in her carrier for many hours,” Lensing said.

“My arms were tired. She needed to stretch. And I had to communicate with all the family members wondering where the heck we were.”

Lensing has said that her shaming experience should be a lesson to those who deem it acceptable to publicly judge a stranger’s parenting techniques online.

Photo credit: Aero Pixels from England via Wikipedia


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Dario Leone

Dario Leone

Dario Leone is an aviation, defense and military writer. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviation Geek Club” one of the world’s most read military aviation blogs. His writing has appeared in The National Interest and other news media. He has reported from Europe and flown Super Puma and Cougar helicopters with the Swiss Air Force.

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