Flying with a baby is not easy, especially when they are hard to calm down. When flights face turbulence, it can be all the more triggering for the babies. In a video going viral, a man can be seen losing his cool and yelling at flight attendants over a crying baby on a Southwest airline plane to Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Everyone had to deboard at Orlando airport after the man’s outburst. The video of the incident was shot by a fellow passenger.
“Can you calm the child down, please? I had headphones on. I was sleeping. Why is the baby yelling? I’m not screaming. Want me to scream? I’ll scream. Please stop the baby. We are in a tin can with a baby in an echo chamber. Can you lower that voice?” the man can be heard saying in the video. “I paid for a ticket to have a comfortable flight. That child has been crying for 40 minutes,” the man continues to complain.
The passenger who shot the video was identified later as Mark Grabowski. Grabowski said the passenger in question asked the baby to keep quiet out of nowhere. He added that flight attendants moved the woman and the baby to another area of the aircraft after the man’s outburst. A video of the incident was shared on the Twitter page DeL2000 (@DeL2000).
Orlando, Florida: Man have a meltdown over a baby crying on a Southwest flight to Ft. Lauderdale. Everyone had to deplane due to his outburst at Orlando Airport. Video from Mark Grabowski. #plane #SouthwestAirlines #babycrying #orlando pic.twitter.com/2qLrPWQGfe
— DeL2000 (@DeL2000) April 20, 2023
“He seems to b making more noise than the baby,” commented a user. “Just imagine the amount of noise he would have made being an infant back then,” said another. “This is a tricky one. I don’t think they should have landed the flight early because of this. He wasn’t threatening. He was aggravated,” shared another netizen.