by Charles Liu
The NanfangToday, 13:10
Air travel is fraught with enough complications and hassles that you’d think the last thing to hold up a plane would be a crying child. And yet, that’s exactly what happened to a Chinese family of three when their three year-old’s temper tantrum prevented a plane from taking off.
On January 9, the Zhang family was all set to travel to Dubai as part of an organized tour. After boarding the plane, the Zhang’s three year-old boy became extremely upset and screaming he wanted to get off the plane because it was going to crash.
It was a tense moment as the entire plane was waiting for the boy to calm down, which he did not. Here’s how Mrs Zhang explained it:
Nothing was working: my husband tried raising his voice, while everyone on the plane from other passengers to the flight attendants all tried to console him. When the plane was about to take off, my husband and I quickly debated whether one of us should go ahead. However, our child wouldn’t hear a word of it, and wanted all three of us to get off the plane because the plane was going to crash.
The plane refused to take-off with a child screaming that the plane was going to crash so the Zhangs agreed to leave the plane. Crew were sent to retrieve their luggage, and the Zhangs were escorted back to the airport terminal.
Once the Zhangs left the plane, the boy immediately calmed down and stopped crying. When his parents asked him why he thought the plane was going to crash, he responded that his grandmother told him as much.
Said Mrs Zhang, “Once we heard our son say that, we all laughed until we cried.”
Due to their son’s outburst and the grandmother’s advice, the Zhangs relinquished their tickets worth over 20,000 yuan (over $3,000).
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