A Porter Airline flight was cancelled due to child refusing to fasten its seatbelt. An airline spokesman said in an email that its plane left the terminal in Victoria on Thursday and was headed to the runway for departure to Toronto, but a young child was standing in their seat and would not secure their seatbelt despite attempts by the accompanying parent and cabin crew.
All attempts by a parent and crew to address the situation were unsuccessful.
One passenger reported that the child, “They just kept hiding under their seat. If they got forced into [being] strapped in, they just kind of slid out underneath.”
The aircraft could not take off in what Porter called an unsafe situation, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the two passengers disembark.
It says the time needed to bridge the aircraft, deplane the duo, retrieve their baggage, and submit new flight plans and other paperwork meant it was too late to depart, since Victoria’s runway closes at 12:30 a.m.
Porter Airlines says the other passengers had to wait for another flight the next day, and it apologizes to those people.
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