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29 March 2024

Passenger forgets mom…pilot aborts take-off

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A Saudi passenger aircraft began moving away from the airport terminal in the Gulf Kingdom to prepare to take off before it abruptly stopped and returned to its place.

The surprised passengers had thought there was a technical problem but their surprise turned into puzzlement when they were told by the pilot that he had to return to pick up a passenger forgotten by her son.

The Saudia jet was en route from the southern Saudi province of Jazan to the capital Riyadh when a worried passenger hurried into the cabin and begged the captain.

“I forgot my mother at the terminal…please let me go and pick her,” the passenger was reported by Sabq newspaper as telling the pilot.

“The pilot quickly radioed the airport control and said he was returning to the terminal to pick a passenger…the plane taxied back to its place and the passenger’s mother was later able to join her son aboard the aircraft.”