Flight attendant fired for briefly putting child in overhead bin

[DieselDragRacer]

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY



What began as a father's in-flight game of peek-a-boo over the South Pacific ended with a flight attendant's firing for briefly hiding a 17-month-old boy in an overhead bin, according to reports from Down Under.

Virgin Blue airlines said it fired the male attendant and offered Natalie Williamson two free trips for the incident, which occurred three months ago, the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun reported.

Williamson said her son, Riley, has been suffering anxiety and withdrawal and has seen several specialists. She said the child was inside the closed compartment for about 10 seconds during the flight from Fiji to Sydney.

"My husband, Shayne, was standing one meter behind my son, Riley, when the air steward picked him up and placed him in the overhead compartment," she said.
"I stood up and there were people laughing and then I said, 'Get my son out of there now,'" she told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated.
"I was crying. My husband was in shock. For days on end I was crying."
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Williamson said she and her husband are now estranged.

 

[GuppyWN]

A 17 month old is in therapy? Yeah...... cause his mom is a psycho bitch!

Gup

 

[Captainzero1]

Lighten up lady!

 

[Ex737Driver]

17 months................that's one and half in human years, right?

 

[Jetjockey]

She got fired for putting the child in the overhead? Probably didn't fit under the seat.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

"I was crying. My husband was in shock. For days on end I was crying."


Williamson said she and her husband are now estranged.

I'm thinking this guy is already a winner.

 

[Blue Dude]

Williamson said her son, Riley, has been suffering anxiety and withdrawal and has seen several specialists.

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Williamson said she and her husband are now estranged.

I'm thinking these little facts are far more connected than anything the FA did.

Her little snowflake wasn't damaged for life by being in a bin for 10 seconds. He was probably more than a little freaked out by his "devastated" mom's behavior, though.

 

[Erlanger]

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY



What began as a father's in-flight game of peek-a-boo over the South Pacific ended with a flight attendant's firing for briefly hiding a 17-month-old boy in an overhead bin, according to reports from Down Under.

Virgin Blue airlines said it fired the male attendant and offered Natalie Williamson two free trips for the incident, which occurred three months ago, the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun reported.

Williamson said her son, Riley, has been suffering anxiety and withdrawal and has seen several specialists. She said the child was inside the closed compartment for about 10 seconds during the flight from Fiji to Sydney.

"My husband, Shayne, was standing one meter behind my son, Riley, when the air steward picked him up and placed him in the overhead compartment," she said.
"I stood up and there were people laughing and then I said, 'Get my son out of there now,'" she told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated.
"I was crying. My husband was in shock. For days on end I was crying."
​

Williamson said she and her husband are now estranged.

Sounds like the setup for a lawsuit.

 

[Redmeat]

Sounds like the setup for a lawsuit.

Yup. And all they needed was some mindless soda-cart operator to do something extremely stupid to make it an open-and-shut case. What if the Bin door would not have re-opened?...happens all the time.

Cash out-of-court settlement check from airline, The End.

 

[SansPlane]

I'm thinking this guy is already a winner.

I never miss a chance to throw out a "Charles Barkley" when I am able:

After Kevin Garnett threw a ball into the crowd out of frustration and was ejected. They showed footage of the man that got hit by the ball being taken away in a stretcher and his daughter was crying. Charles commented that players take passes to the face all the time. He topped it off by saying: “You know why that little girl’s crying? It’s because she’s thinking ‘my daddy’s a wussy’”.