Parents board flight, forget toddler at airport - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

LoganSnake · 05-13-2008, 06:19 PM

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OTTAWA (AFP) - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... oops.
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A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the Vancouver international airport, media said Tuesday.

The 23-month-old boy's family had just arrived in Canada from the Philippines, but they were forced to repack their overweight bags before catching a connecting flight to Winnipeg, causing them to run late.

In their sprint to the gate, the family became separated.

The boy's father Jun Parreno, told local media he had thought his son was with his wife and the boy's grandparents, who ran ahead. They thought the boy was with his dad.

On the plane, the family members were seated separately and so did not immediately realize they had left the child behind.

Sometime later, a security guard found the boy, who speaks no English, wandering near the departure gate, and Air Canada officials tracked down his shocked parents on the flight.

Because the boy was so young, he was not issued a boarding pass and would have sat on a parent's lap during the flight, so airline personnel did not notice a passenger was missing.

According to the Vancouver Sun, airport security found a Tagalog-speaking Air Canada agent who looked after the child while his father flew 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) back to Vancouver to pick him up and then return to Winnipeg to rejoin the immigrant family on their first day in Canada.

The baby was kept in Air Canada's offices and staff found him some toys, said local media.

"Air Canada took good care of him," Parreno told the daily Winnipeg Free Press upon arrival. "I'm grateful."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080513...ippinesoffbeat

Church · 05-13-2008, 06:51 PM

Wow, thats just a bad mis happening. I don't completely put the parents at blame though. That sounds like a plausible reason for "forgetting" the child, although they could have co-ordinated with each other a little more. Its not like they forgot him because they were high or causing a problem or anything. They didn't try to hide behind a lie, apologized, and thanked Air Canada. All in all, everyone got home, happily ever after.

lotsofmagnets · 05-13-2008, 06:52 PM

given a movie about this subject matter i´m surprised no-one thought to employ the kid as an agent to thwart any attempted terrorism in the airport.

QuasiMondo · 05-13-2008, 07:03 PM

Babies on a Plane?

Shauk · 05-13-2008, 07:49 PM

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=130054

lol, he should have been detained for questioning

Church · 05-13-2008, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets

given a movie about this subject matter i´m surprised no-one thought to employ the kid as an agent to thwart any attempted terrorism in the airport.

Before I finished reading your sentence, I was actually thinking Home Alone. 1 or 2, you take your pick!

markre · 05-22-2008, 06:12 AM

easy enough to do supose

speshul-k · 05-23-2008, 06:47 PM

Home Alone - The Prequel!

05-13-2008, 06:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
Church Tilted F*ckhead Location: New Jersey	Wow, thats just a bad mis happening. I don't completely put the parents at blame though. That sounds like a plausible reason for "forgetting" the child, although they could have co-ordinated with each other a little more. Its not like they forgot him because they were high or causing a problem or anything. They didn't try to hide behind a lie, apologized, and thanked Air Canada. All in all, everyone got home, happily ever after. __________________ Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble makers, and neutralize them.

05-13-2008, 06:52 PM	#3 (permalink)
lotsofmagnets Upright Location: reykjavík, iceland	given a movie about this subject matter i´m surprised no-one thought to employ the kid as an agent to thwart any attempted terrorism in the airport. __________________ mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor. she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron. physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

05-13-2008, 07:03 PM	#4 (permalink)
QuasiMondo Wise-ass Latino Location: Pretoria (Tshwane), RSA	Babies on a Plane? __________________ Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer. -From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator

05-22-2008, 06:12 AM	#7 (permalink)
markre Upright	easy enough to do supose __________________ Never Forgive and Never Forget

05-13-2008, 07:49 PM	#5 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=130054 lol, he should have been detained for questioning

05-23-2008, 06:47 PM	#8 (permalink)
speshul-k Insane	Home Alone - The Prequel!