A woman flying from Istanbul to Paris tried to hide a baby in her hand luggage. Crew members on board the Airbus319 headed to the French capital from Ataturk airport said they discovered a small child inside a woman’s bag.
They baby, they said, ‘seemed well’.
‘The bag belonged to a woman sat near the back of the plane,’ a passenger named Vincent, 36, told Planet.fr. ‘At one point she wanted to open it and her neighbour on the other row of seats saw there was something hidden in the interior.
‘He alerted the crew who discovered inside a baby aged one or two.’
Following the discovery the woman and her baby were promptly escorted to the front of the plane, where they stayed until landing. Air France said in a statement that an inquiry was underway.
As for the passenger who noticed the baby in the bag, a crew member said he was ‘very shocked’, which is not surprising.
