Mainland Chinese family ejected from flight over seatbelt dispute

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ASIA NEWS NETWORK
Mainland Chinese family ejected from flight over seatbelt dispute
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Petaling Jaya - A three-year-old boy who refused to fasten his seatbelt during a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flight caused his family to be ejected from the aircraft, but not before sparking a commotion on board and delaying the flight.

The Straits Times reported that the boy’s parents, a mainland Chinese couple, were urged to secure their three-year-old in his seat moments before flight CX564 was due to take-off from Bangkok at 3:15pm on Tuesday.

However, the parents are said to have refused to do so and wanted the child to sit on his mother’s lap instead, prompting an argument with flight attendants.

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported a passenger by the surname Lau telling Apple Daily that the boy had refused to sit down and wear his seatbelt.

A video taken by Lau showed another female passenger getting irritated with the commotion and asking the flight crew to “call the police”.

She was heard telling the Chinese couple in Cantonese: “We are customers too. Why are you allowed to harass the whole flight?"

The toddler’s father replied by saying they would not be “bullied” into leaving. “If others keep harassing us, we will not leave the plane," he could be heard saying in the Putonghua dialect.

The family eventually left the plane grudgingly after more airline staff intervened in the commotion.

Cathay Pacific later told SCMP that the decision to remove the family of three was taken based on safety grounds, as the passengers refused to follow the cabin crew’s instructions.

The airline said the incident delayed the flight by almost 30 minutes. Just a day earlier, a similar incident was reported on a Hong Kong Airlines flight returning from Bali, Indonesia.

The flight’s crew were forced to call the police when a three-year-old boy refused to remain in his seat as the plane landed at Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong.

The boy’s grandparent carried the boy despite the cabin crew’s insistence that the child should sit in his own seat and wear a seatbelt.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/aec/Mainland-Chinese-family-ejected-from-flight-over-s-30255162.html

-- The Nation 2015-03-02

[apetley]

Yep.....you can't fix stupid.

[krisb]

Maybe the kid was scared?

Anyway rules are rules especially on planes.

[Chonburiram]

Why not design a belt who can be attached to a parents belt for situations like this? Can't be that difficult.

[Paulc01]

PRC citizens have become a travel hazard.

[Chonburiram]

...Anyway rules are rules especially on planes.

Right, but try to explain this to a scared/moody/restive 3 yo inflight...

[krisb]

Why not design a belt who can be attached to a parents belt for situations like this? Can't be that difficult.

There already is for kids up to 2yo.

Maybe it's a height weight thing for older kids.

[Paulc01]

...Anyway rules are rules especially on planes.

Right, but try to explain this to a scared/moody/restive 3 yo inflight...

Then, maybe the 3 year old should NOT be on the flight. If the child AND the parents can't obey well established safety regulations, then they shouldn't be on the plane. Everybody's safety should not be held hostage to some self centered family who think that the price of a ticket allows them to set up their on rules.

[H1w4yR1da]

...Anyway rules are rules especially on planes.

Right, but try to explain this to a scared/moody/restive 3 yo inflight...

Nothing a slap upside the head won't cure.

[trogers]

...Anyway rules are rules especially on planes.

Right, but try to explain this to a scared/moody/restive 3 yo inflight...

Nothing a slap upside the head won't cure.

What? Whack the Little Emperor? Remember China's one-child policy?

[Grouse]

Similar problem in business class on Thai flight from Phuket to BKK early Saturday morning a week ago

Complete bloody nuisance.

Can't control their own kids.

Frankly, kids should be banned from business class anyway (together with Aussies in vests)

[hanno]

The problem is that Chinese kids are little Emperors that are taught by their parents that whatever they want, they get. I had a couple on a flight today with a very scared boy around the same age and they managed to soothe the kid and have him put on their seat belt. The difference? They were Japanese.

[khwaibah]

Make the family go up to Chiang Rai and clean the toilets for 12 months.

[tingtongfarang]

When they are exposed for their antisocial habits or crimes in HK they scream HK citizens look down on us and try to make us small, they are snobs, only want to look down the nose at us, we are being picked on,

yet they shit and piss everywhere even the mrt.

[chaiyapoon]

The Chinese the oldest civilisation in the world.

Lost the plot somewhere along the line.

We are all barbarians to them.

Sounds the other way round to me.

[Scott]

Posts with racial slurs have been removed.

[JingerBen]

Similar problem in business class on Thai flight from Phuket to BKK early Saturday morning a week ago

Complete bloody nuisance.

Can't control their own kids.

Frankly, kids should be banned from business class anyway (together with Aussies in vests)

Aussies in vests... are they becoming a problem too?

[cornishcarlos]

...Anyway rules are rules especially on planes.

Right, but try to explain this to a scared/moody/restive 3 yo inflight...

Nothing a slap upside the head won't cure.

What? Whack the Little Emperor? Remember China's one-child policy?

No, slap the parents... Hard

[Rob8891]

PRC citizens have become a travel hazard.

PRC citizens have become a travel hazard.

[tx22cb]

These Asian airlines are too soft with unruly passengers.

Let these families try that on a US flight ..... the "experienced" American flight crew will not tolerate any nonsense.

[LuckyLew]

useless parents who have zero control over their offspring ... good thing these parents can only have one

[trainman34014]

Easy answer...don't take small brats flying !

[JDGRUEN]

Liquid Benadryl ... 1/2 hour before flight

[SheungWan]

As soon as a Cathay Pacific plane hits the tarmac on landing, there is always at least one PRC passenger who thinks it is a good time to jump up and empty the overhead.

[konying]

Why not design a belt who can be attached to a parents belt for situations like this? Can't be that difficult.

Considering the number of kids flying and number of idiotic parents, why should such a belt be invented?

Why stop at that , why not invent a gadget for every idiot on this planet?.

[Mister Fixit]

Why not design a belt who can be attached to a parents belt for situations like this? Can't be that difficult.

There's been a seat belt attachment like that for many years. I don't know why this wasn't offered on this occasion.

However, I have seen at first hand how some of these animals behave on planes. Anyone who refused to comply with safety policy on planes should be kicked off and banned for life, and if they start something in midair, they should be arrested on landing and charged and banned.

Better still, the plane should return to point of origin, the passengers removed and arrested and billed for the airlines costs

Edited March 2, 2015 by Mister Fixit

[Dannyboy666]

I'm surprised the Chinese Government has not Cracked Down on this Behavior...

[copa8]

Yep.....you can't fix stupid.

no you can't. http://thepointsguy.com/2015/02/mom-and-baby-booted-off-frontier-flight-for-rudeness/

[jacko45k]

I have seen this before, mine was an Arabic couple whose kid wasn't for being put in a seat and the father seemed to deem it unnecessary for the kid to be seated and belted. It is either a delayed flight or distraught parents and a brat making a hellacious racket.

[SaamBaht]

Even the most well behaved children will act up at times. It's on the parents to take action. I don't mind being on planes when children are present as long as their parents are assertive and take appropriate action when necessary.