A woman started arguing with a man after hearing him complain that there were “too many children” on board a flight departing from JFK Airport in New York.
The incident, which occurred on June 23, was filmed by passenger Karoll Chanel Morel. According to her, the controversy began with the delay of the flight, which was headed to Cibao International Airport in the Dominican Republic.
“When we were on the runway about to take off, the flight attendant noticed that she had two babies and her 13-year-old son with her,” Morel told the independent news page PPV Tahoe. Morel claimed that a flight attendant noticed the teenager carrying the baby and told the mother that an adult needed to hold the child during the flight, forcing the plane to return to the gate.
The video began when a man wearing a black Adidas shirt and a baseball cap yelled at the mother to “shut up” before the argument reached a boiling point. Morel alleged that the frustrated man began to “go crazy” and blamed her and her children for the delay.
The fearless teenage son of the passenger, wearing a white shirt and glasses, stood up from his seat, two rows ahead of the enraged passenger, to confront him as well.
The camera then turns to her son, whom the flight attendants were forced to restrain while another passenger held the mother’s baby.
“When we returned to the gate, the guy who [was holding] the baby in the video offered to take him on the flight if the mother agreed, and she said yes, so they switched the baby for his name,” Morel told the news outlet.
The video of the fight was posted on Instagram, where it has already garnered over 200,000 views and hundreds of comments from netizens who came to the mother’s defense. “Traveling with children is not easy, why make her day more difficult than it already is,” commented one Instagram user.
“A grown man yelling at a woman and child like that is crazy!” said another. “I really loved how the son defended the mother,” stated a third netizen. “He shut him up, though,” wrote another.
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