“A passenger left her baby in the terminal and refuses to continue the flight,” a pilot can be heard saying to air traffic control in a leaked recording.
There are not many situations that are going to make a plane do a U-turn and head back to the airport — but apparently a passenger forgetting her baby is one of them.
Seemingly struggling to believe the request, staffers asked the pilot to explain the scenario one more time for good measure. Describing it as “a totally new one for us,” air traffic control granted the flight permission to return.
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