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Saudia Airlines 777 diverts back home to pick up forgotten baby
Various news outlets are reporting that a Saudia flight to Malaysia turned around to pick up a baby that a female passenger left behind in the waiting area at Jeddah airport. https://www.theepochtimes.com/flight...y_2832920.html
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Sounds like a block turnback on the ground to me. My Arabic is a little rusty though.
Neither of the SV832 flights this past weekend did an air turnback to JED from what I can see. |
The article linked by the OP makes it clear that the flight returned to the gate.
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From the article linked above:
The incredulous air-traffic controller had to double-check what the desperate passenger said she had left behind when the pilot radioed in requesting to return the airport. “We told you, a passenger left her baby in the terminal and refuses to continue the flight,” came the reply, recorded in a video clip that quickly went viral on the internet . According to Gulf News, the airplane had already taken off when the passenger alerted the crew on the weekend Saudia airlines flight SV832 from Jeddah in Dubai to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The bizarre request caught air-traffic officials off guard, as they scrambled to figure out whether leaving a baby behind constituted an “emergency” according to airline protocols, which are naturally strict on the criteria for turning flights around. |
According to Gulf News, the airplane had already taken off when the passenger alerted the crew on the weekend Saudia airlines flight SV832 from Jeddah in Dubai to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
The bizarre request caught air-traffic officials off guard, as they scrambled to figure out whether leaving a baby behind constituted an “emergency” according to airline protocols, which are naturally strict on the criteria for turning flights around. |
Headcount?
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Originally Posted by Hotel Tango
(Post 10414406)
Absolute tosh! It is not ATC's business as to why an aircraft needs to return to the gate. The crew would not have to declare an emergency, just simply request taxi clearance back to the gate for "operational" reasons.
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Let's hope both the airline and the airport squeeze her for costs and the authorities remove the baby to a place of safety. How on earth do you forget a baby?
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Which of us can honestly say that we haven’t wanted to leave one or more of our children behind when we boarded a flight? |
Originally Posted by Harley Quinn
(Post 10414857)
Let's hope both the airline and the airport squeeze her for costs and the authorities remove the baby to a place of safety. How on earth do you forget a baby?
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Originally Posted by Bull at a Gate
(Post 10414872)
Which of us can honestly say that we haven’t wanted to leave one or more of our children behind when we boarded a flight? |
Apart from 'depart' and 'take off,' Gulf News also has problems with the location of Jeddah.
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Apart from 'depart' and 'take off,' Gulf News also has problems with the location of Jeddah. As for the story itself seems pretty minor. |
This is fake news. Just to get you all tuned up. Nobody forgets his or her child. This never happened.
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In the case of families accustomed to travelling with a "maid / nanny" I can easily imagine this happening.
Not sure about M-E but this flight was headed for KL. No shortage of Malaysian mothers who have very little contact or responsibility for their infants once the stitches go in. They blithely swan around assuming that the pembantu has hold of the little one(s). |
Originally Posted by Bull at a Gate
(Post 10414872)
Which of us can honestly say that we haven’t wanted to leave one or more of our children behind when we boarded a flight? |
Brings to mind that wonderful Larsen cartoon of the 'Wing Baby' where father points out of the window at a dummy in the shape of a baby trailing from the wing and says to his little one 'that's what happens if you don't keep quiet'. The caption reads something like 'All airlines could improve passenger comfort by installing a wing baby'. I WISH!
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