Plane Returns to Airport After Mother Leaves Baby Behind

A flight was forced to turn back to Saudi Arabia after a mother reportedly left her baby at the airport.

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

A video in which the 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, reports The Independent.

“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 (airport) 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.

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21 Comments

- - BellaB said
  - 20 Apr 2019
    7:45 pm
Good grief. How on earth could you do this?

- - mumma said
  - 20 Mar 2019
    11:48 pm
My heart it racing reading this story. I would have gone into cardiac arrest knowing I left my baby behind.
Did the flight take off or just leave the terminal, so it just pooped around the tarmac or what?

- - tessie said
  - 17 Mar 2019
    1:35 pm
How can you forget your own child. I’m just speechless.

- - ella12 said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    3:58 pm
What the? I cannot comprehend this, this is just insanity.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    10:44 am
seriously how do you even do this? I’d forget luggage before I forgot a child!

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    9:36 am
Oh my goodness, the poor thing, travelling is so hectic so I can understand she forgot the most important thing

- - mom282285 said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    9:02 am
Another Home Alone movie script here!

- - rovermum said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    8:52 am
Um, how does this happen? And how does it take you that long to realise? There is a whole lot of time spent with all passengers getting on the plane, getting ready for take off, etc…. before the plane then takes off. More than 30 minutes I’d say. Just a little concerning.

- - Ellen said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    7:39 am
How and who in the world would forget their baby ?! Glad they returned for that, poor baby !

- - roseuponatime said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    7:34 am
Umm I’m not quite sure what to say to this one ????

- - rachel1970 said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    6:34 am
How can you “forget” your child?? I just cannot understand that.

- - mom101628 said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    10:04 pm
Sorry – just can’t understand how you could accidently ‘forget’ your child/baby at the departure gates. When you are flying you don’t stop checking everything, your purse, your baggage, and your travelling companions including your child.

- - ceelicious said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    9:36 pm
Whaaaa?? I’ve always thought Home Alone rather ridiculous (despite loving the film of course!) because I figured no mother in the universe could do that.
A severe case of baby brain?!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    8:33 pm
Um, what? I thought that only happened in Home Alone!

- - mom114371 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    9:22 pm
How on earth did she forget her baby?! I understand maybe walking Away for a second then realising, but boarding a flight and taking off, that’s not a short process!

- - rnash02 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    8:33 pm
I understand after long flights your tired, but I don’t understand how you could get on a flight and leave your baby behind.

- - ashna9 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    6:31 pm
How could that possibly happen??

- - mom90758 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    3:02 pm
Oh my!! Unbelievable!! How can you do such a thing??? Forget your baby?
This is an accident that created problems to all the other passengers and the plane company of course.
Weird. I’d like to hear more about how that could happen.

- - mom160421 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    2:53 pm
This would have cost the airline a bit and inconvenienced a lot of people. How can you forget your baby???

- - mom81879 said
  - 12 Mar 2019
    11:34 am
How unbelievably unbelievable! HOW?!?!?! How can you be at an airport with your baby and board a plane without the baby?!?!?! And to actually have taken off and on their way before the mother realises. I think the mum should be drug and alcohol tested, just to be sure