Flight turned around after mother leaves baby at airport

Pilot of Malaysia-bound plane praised for treating incident as an emergency

Plane
(Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

A new viral video captures the moment when the pilot of a flight from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia requests permission to turn around - after a mother on board realised she had left her baby at the departure terminal.

The panicked young woman reportedly begged the crew on Flight SV832 to take action after realised her infant child was still at King Abdul Aziz International Airport, in Jeddah. The pilot immediately requested permission from air traffic control to return to the gate, an exchange captured on the video.

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