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The Craziest Things Airline Workers
Have Experienced on a Flight
Just before takeoff, while one of her colleagues
was finishing the safety briefing a flight attendant
and senior purser for over a decade heard a baby
crying, but she couldn’t figure out where the
sound was coming from. The cries were kind of
muffled, and the sound seemed to be coming
from nowhere in particular. Then she realized: It
was coming from one of the overhead luggage
bins. Turned out that one of the passengers had
managed to stow her baby, snug in its bassinet,
Regina Police Service into the overhead bin without anyone seeing.
Believe it or not, she explains, this wasn’t a sign
It’s a long way from acquiring an aircraft, but the Regina that the woman was a bad mother. Rather, in
Police Service has started to look at this possibility, some cultures, it isn’t uncommon for first-time
CTV’s Wayne Mantyka reported in early September.
fliers to be under the impression that the
The RPS is well aware of the work done by the Saskatoon’ overhead bin isn’t just a place to stow carry-on
Police Service’s Air Support Unit, which has a Cessna luggage, but also a perfectly cozy sleeping cove for
182 configured with high-tech surveillance gear. "We've a newborn or infant baby. This, among others, is
called the Saskatoon aircraft down a couple times to help one of the funny and surprising things your flight
us on calls for service. They also help the RCMP and attendant won’t tell you. She located where the
surrounding communities in Saskatoon," Bray said. cries were coming from, reached up, took the
baby,(leaving the bassinet, which is where it
It is frequently used to track down motorists who take
off from police and also to look for wanted murderers belongs on a plane, and handed to its mother,
and missing persons. “We're going to have to put who was confused until she managed to explain
together a business case, have a discussion with the that babies without their own seats must be held
board of police commissioners to determine if this is during takeoff.
something we think has kind of a risk-benefit analysis in
our city,".
"We need to have more conversation about. I think there
would be some benefit but there are lots of needs in a
community as well so it's how far we can get to the top of
that list," RPS Chief Evan Bray
