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May 21, 2008

Home Alone — okay, LEFT alone (at the airport, anyway)

Filed under: Airport, Children — anne @ 11:29 am

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Okay, there’s mother, father, grandma, grandpa and toddler. Here’s the story of their Big Adventure.

Earlier this month, the happy little family was running, running, running to catch an Air Canada flight in the Vancouver airport. With no time to spare, they made the plane. All got onboard, and all were scattered throughout the aircraft.

Which is apparently why nobody noticed that nobody had the toddler. Yes, the beloved little tyke had been forgotten. He was eventually found by some Air Canadians, no doubt wondering where the heck everyone had disappeared to.

Actually, this is an extraordinary story of detective work on the part of the airline folks, who eventually reunited the kid with his parents (among the hurdles: the child was a lap sitter so he didn’t show up on the manifest, plus he was only 2-years old so he didn’t speak much, plus what little he did speak was Tagalog — this was an immigrant family from the Philippines).