Since I have carted pax for a job it's a tad unfair. Got a lot of barfing and terrified punter stories. However, this kid takes the biscuit.
Scene, Cairns to Dunk Is in a Twotter. I'm the FO. Since the captain does all the paper work it's up to the FO to brief the pax. Since Dunk is a holiday destination I try to keep the brief short, fun and informative. I saw this 10 yo girl from a fair way back on the tarmac as they were approaching the aeroplane. Nothing like hearing "are we going in THAT little plane?" to really unerve the sometimes spooked punters. Remember, they've just walked past the Ansett 767s, 737s and one or two 146's. This little terror asked why we couldn't go in one of those. My reply "well, we could probably land it, but it would never take off again"
Any way, start doing the brief, you're all familiar with it, seat belts, life jackets, exits etc and all the time she's interrupting me and generally carrying on. (Thanks parents NOT for shutting her up). Zoom down the coast to Dunk and plonk it on the runway.
It's a shortish strip ~800m and so the brakes are used.
In the Twotter the big brake disks are exposed and easily touched if you have a go.
What does this little girl do when she gets off the aeroplane? Makes a bee line for the hot disks. I practically grabbed her and shooed her away from the wheels. Glared at her parents and shook my head. She would have lost all her skin on her hands and screamed her little lungs out if she had have touched them.
More importantly, she might have damaged the disk.