Unsettled child’s eight-hour inflight tantrum filmed by passenger
A passenger on a flight from Germany to New York has shared shocking footage of a toddler’s tantrum, which lasted the entirety of the eight-hour flight.
Shane Townley, an artist from New York City, recorded the footage as the toddler climbed over seats and screamed at the top of his voice before the flight had taken off.
The boy’s mother is not identified in the footage, but is heard asking the flight attending to, “Get the WiFi going so we can get the iPad going”.
The footage cuts to different sections of the flight, where the nightmare child is running around the plane and doing what he wants as the hours drag by.
Townley uploaded the footage to YouTube, writing, “Watch as this kid runs and screams throughout the entire flight while the mother does little to nothing to stop him.
“3 years old on a 8 hour flight from Germany to Newark NJ. He never quits!”
In a later interview with Daily Mail, Townley explained he did not contact the airline, “but I’m certain someone did as the entire plane was affected the whole time.”
Understandably, the video has attracted lots of commons online.
“If this started before the plane took off, the plane should have taxied back to the terminal and kicked the kid and his parents off. This kind of behaviour is just unacceptable,” one wrote.
“Call an exorcist,” another added.
What are your thoughts? Do you think the mother did everything she could? Or is it just one of those things that’s going to happen when you’re travelling with toddlers?