Posted on 08/03/2008 1:30:36 PM PDT by Alouette
A three-year-old girl was forgotten at Ben-Gurion International Airport Sunday, when her parents flew to Paris with only four of their five children.
Just like in the famous movie Home Alone, in which an eight-year-old boy is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for a Christmas holiday, the two parents from Israel, who were on their way to an annual vacation in Paris, forgot their young daughter.
The crying child was found wandering the duty free shops with no adult supervision.
Police at Ben-Gurion noticed the wandering child among the thousands of passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport and managed to calm her down and identify her. After looking for her name in passenger lists, police realized that the parents' Sun D'or flight to Paris had already taken off.
According to police, the parents did not realize that one of their children is missing until the pilot of the plane was notified. The airplane staff counted the passengers and realized that one of the passengers indeed was missing. Eventually they informed the parents about their forgotten child.
The child was flown to Paris, where her parents were waiting for her, later on Sunday on an El Al flight. She was escorted by a special cabin attendant.
The parents will be questioned by police on their return to Israel.
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Well, that's one kid that will forever be immune from Jewish mother guilt. :-)
A 3 year old? There is something horribly wrong with these parents.
>>The parents will be questioned by police on their return to Israel.<<
Whaaa?
AFTER they return the police will investigate/ask questions?
Yes, after they return. You wouldn’t want to spoil their holiday, would you? That would be a HUGE buzzkill...
Good grief! Idiots!
Damn how you leave your poor kid at airport
I don’t feel sympathy for the parents just for little girl
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