Published on : Wednesday, March 13, 2019
However, in a bizarre incident that took place at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah a woman ‘forgot’ to take her newborn on board. She came to realise that her baby was left back at the departure only after the plane had taken off, as per a report in Gulf News. She raised an alarm and the pilot was forced to return to the airport to pick up the baby.
According to reports, Flight SV832 headed for Kuala Lumpur from Jeddah was flown back after the woman passenger informed the cabin crew about her blunder. Later, a video of the pilot requesting the Air Traffic Control (ATC) to allow the aircraft to land back at the airport went viral on social media.
The ATC crew were completely taken aback by this since they had never across such an experience earlier. They figured out the protocol to be observed in such situations The mother eventually got united with her baby after the flight returned.