Qatar Airways Flight Turns Chaotic As Child Stabs Passenger With Fork Mid-Flight
As her mother slept, a child roamed the aisles of a Qatar Airways longhaul flight holding a metal fork and stabbed an unsuspecting passenger, prompting an outcry of pain.
Child Roams Cabin, Stabs Passenger With Fork on Qatar Airways — What Would You Do?
View From The Wing shares a story of a young girl jabbing another passenger with a metal fork (Qatar still uses “real” cutlery in economy class) on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha (DOH) to New York (JFK). That’s a 14-hour flight…long for anyone, but especially for children, even with a TV featuring thousands of hours of programming.
Per the account of passengers on board and seemingly verified by the video below, the girl was traveling with her sister and mother. As mom slept, the girl got up, prowled, and attacked a passenger seated in the center section a couple of rows back.
The female victim apparently let out a cry of pain and when the stabbing continued, she smacked the child (she said she did not, but later said she did). She then pulled off her shoe and prepared to smack the child again in order to ward her off while crying out for her help from a flight attendant.
She just randomly stabbed me with a fork! I almost slapped her. I’m gonna f*ck her up. She ran and hit me, stabbed me with the fork. I don’t know whose kid that is. You gotta’ get her. I’m gonna’ smack the s*it out of her.
The victim’s companion started filming, with audible snickering…did she think this was funny?
@donnitta_renee Replying to @D WHEN WE FINALLY GOT ATTENTION, They took the fork! My sister has no chill lmao #qatarairways #donnittarenee #flightkids
@donnitta_renee Replying to @LoyalToya YES, she was tired!! #donnittarenee #flight #flightattendant #kidsbelike
Crewmembers quickly arrived, with one removing the fork from the hand of the child and another trying to wake up the mother, who appeared in a deep sleep. Other passengers onboard said the mother was dismissive of the incident and did nothing to control her children, with her other child apparently having an outburst later in the flight.
As the father of two young children myself, this is a plea to monitor your own children! If I’m not working, I love to zone out on flights…it’s relaxing to put on noise-cancelling headphones and listen to music or watch a movie (the plane is the only place I watch movies or TV shows…though I made an exception for White Lotus!). But I could not do that when my kids were younger…they needed constant monitoring. Ignoring them is to your own peril…and the peril of other passengers.
I don’t blame the victim for smacking the child…it was a proportionate response.
CONCLUSION
A little girl stabbed another passenger with a fork on a Qatar Airways flight. The mother was sleeping and appeared indifferent when awakened. She failed to control her children and so I have a message to her: if you cannot control your kids, stay home. It’s one thing for a baby to cry due to altitude changes that hurt ears…it’s quite another to allow toddlers and older children to roam freely onboard and terrorize others.
To those parents who think their little delights can run freely and inflict pain on others: be prepared for them to be smacked by others because you failed to teach them well and discipline them consistently in the first place.
image: @donnitta/TikTok (I deliberately chose a screengrab that obscures the face of the child…)