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Passengers Recall 'Flight From Hell' After 3-Year-Old Screamed for 8 Hours Straight
Yahoo! ^ | 02/15/18 | Inside Edition Staff

Posted on 02/15/2018 6:02:46 AM PST by Simon Green

It was a transatlantic headache for passengers aboard a flight from Germany to the U.S. when a child would not stop screaming for eight hours.

The passengers described it as the flight from hell which featured nonstop screaming and fussing from a 3-year-old on board.

The mother of the child was overheard telling flight attendants that her son has “behavioral problems,” according to passengers.

Passenger Shane Townley captured parts of the August flight on video, which has recently come to light.

"She kind of looked like she was used to it," he told Inside Edition of the boy’s mother’s disposition. "He was climbing the chairs. He would not let up. He was running up and down the aisles and there was nothing she could do."

Before the plane even took off from Germany, the child's mother could be heard asking a flight attendant to turn on the wi-fi so the child could be appeased with an iPad.

She was also heard pleading with the child saying, “Calm down, honey.”

“Everyone was kind of looking at each other like, ‘This is going to be a long flight,'" Townley added.

When the flight finally touched down at Newark Liberty International Airport, passengers were relieved.

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TOPICS: Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: airlineflight; benadryl; gravol; screamingchild; spanking
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To: Simon Green

Had a similar experience myself on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago. I was on a 747 in the upper cabin and the flight crew actually allowed passengers sitting close to the brat to use the crew lounge in the back to get away from noise.


61 posted on 02/15/2018 7:15:55 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Simon Green

I wrote a book on this. Parents are weak today. Their kids own them.


62 posted on 02/15/2018 7:16:42 AM PST by lurk
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To: Jim Pelosi

Jim Pelosi,

If your wife’s name is Nancy, we understand your predicament and pray for you and your wife.

Blessings


63 posted on 02/15/2018 7:18:21 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Jim Pelosi

Just sent you a prayer.


64 posted on 02/15/2018 7:18:39 AM PST by thecodont
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To: Simon Green

I was on a cross country flight yesterday. There was a little girl two rows up. She started fussing the moment we landed. Didn’t even know she was there.

Another time, there was a little boy flying with his mom who was really screaming. The mom said he was autistic and was freaking out. There was a man in their row who jumped right in and kept the kid occupied until he calmed down.


65 posted on 02/15/2018 7:30:33 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Simon Green

Future DNC chairman...


66 posted on 02/15/2018 7:35:54 AM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: miss marmelstein

On the same flight yesterday was a man/boy with significant arrested development.

He was wearing the full white rapper wannabe clown suit and kept singing along with his (c)rap “music”

I saw this in the terminal and was hoping strongly we weren’t in the same row.

When the plane landed, he loudly said something about needing a smoke followed by a couple expletives loud enough to be heard several rows up.

I would have enjoyed having a discussion about maturity and proper language to a captive audience for four hours.


67 posted on 02/15/2018 7:36:12 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Simon Green

“Behavioral problems” can be ameliorated - some kids suffer from ear infections/blockages and I’d wager there was something physical going on - 8 hours of howling takes a LOT of energy and severe pain might be something to feed that energy.


68 posted on 02/15/2018 7:37:03 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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To: Simon Green

Before the plane even took off from Germany, the child’s mother could be heard asking a flight attendant to turn on the wi-fi so the child could be appeased with an iPad.

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There’s the root of the problem right there. What the child wants is meaningful interaction with his parent.


69 posted on 02/15/2018 7:37:33 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Simon Green

Why not just sell a couple seats in a soundproof cubicle?
Mandatory for screaming kids. Just take an extra restroom and put a seat in it and some acoustic panels.


70 posted on 02/15/2018 7:39:11 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: Bob Celeste

“All the kid was begging for was a spanking.”

I would love to know how many times that kid had been disciplined??? I’m betting 0 and we could be looking at the next school shooting kid.


71 posted on 02/15/2018 7:41:49 AM PST by kagnew (WWW)
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To: Simon Green

I had the exact same situation once except the flight was 12 hours! San Francisco to Osaka, Japan. It was almost worth going to Japanese prison to strangle that little shit!


72 posted on 02/15/2018 7:44:23 AM PST by airplaneguy
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To: Simon Green

I put myself on the DO NOT FLY list quite some time ago.

I can hardly stand my some of my neighbors a half-mile away. I would not be able to stand being with people like them on an airplane.

I’ve flown all over the world a lot having held platinum type frequent flier cards. Most flights were uneventful but they were getting worse as the fellow travelers became younger and ever more inconsiderate and unruly. It seems that these days travel and close proximity bring out the worst in sheeple.


73 posted on 02/15/2018 7:47:21 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Simon Green

“The mother of the child was overheard telling flight attendants that her son has “behavioral problems,” according to passengers.”

Behavioral problems = Never had a good spanking.


74 posted on 02/15/2018 7:51:45 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: beaversmom

Sorry if I phrased that wrong. I didn’t mean to accuse you of such smacking. I actually responded to your post because I agreed with it.


75 posted on 02/15/2018 7:53:34 AM PST by Celerity
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To: cyclotic

American society and culture is so pacific and classy, isn’t it?


76 posted on 02/15/2018 8:04:16 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Bayan

Maybe not. My kid cried/screamed for his first year and a half. If he was not sleeping he was screaming.

No military doctor solved it—until a golf ball sized mass protruded on his bell indicating a hernia.

Simple operation solved the issue in about an hour.


77 posted on 02/15/2018 8:06:16 AM PST by whistleduck ("....the calm confidence of a Christian with 4 aces".....S.)
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To: Simon Green

Mom needs to get a letter from airline management making it clear that if her child has behavioral problems this severe, and she is either unable or unwilling to control him, then neither will be allowed on future flights.


78 posted on 02/15/2018 8:09:51 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: miss marmelstein

It was the worst case of racial identity crisis I’d seen in quite a while


79 posted on 02/15/2018 8:14:32 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Psalm 73

I can imagine... reminds me of all the local coyotes howling at 6:00pm every evening in response to the fire whistle going off in the nearby town.


80 posted on 02/15/2018 8:24:07 AM PST by TrueFact (The Republicans keep putting the stopper back in the swamp drain.)
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