A most excellent outcome story

[Carrie_R]

I know this probably belongs in the aircraft forum, but I felt it could really benefit from the wider readership here.

The following was posted in the Facebook "Car Seat Safety" group run by a few c-s.o'ers:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/carseatsafety1/permalink/492080030884877/

The gist of the post is that a group member has a friend who was on the Southwest flight which had an errant landing this week in NY. The friend had her son with her, under two - but in a car seat. Resultingly, he is fine and Mom is so glad she purchased him a seat!

We hear a lot of, "If the plane goes down, a carseat won't help." However, this is an example of when it DOES help - the non-fatal emergency situation. I thought it might be most helpful for those of us who advocate child seats on planes to have this story in our back pockets.

 

[ketchupqueen]

Yes! That was quite a ”rough landing” (understatement I've heard several times)- I'm glad he was safely restrained! Yay!

 

[thtr4me]

My DH is a pilot and watched a video of the 'landing' from inside the plane. His take was "that was not a landing, that was a crash".

And that is so awesome that that mama purchased a seat for her DS, and he was kept safe when that happened. I have experienced a really rough landing, and cannot imagine keeping hold of a lap baby during that, let alone something worse.

 

[Phineasmama]

We had some really bad turbulence last time we flew and even that was enough to make me glad my kids were in their car seats

 

[Mom2Connor]

That's great that the kiddo was ok!

 

[lourdes]

It gave me goosebumps

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

An airplane hitting deer on the runway isn't really that uncommon either and that is a situation where I certainly want my little ones in a carseat!

 

[ketchupqueen]

deer on the runway?? How often does that happen?

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

My dad is a pilot for a multistate hospital tranfer company and says he sees them on the runway in Billings, MT at least twice a week. An airliner wouldn't be able to abort take off or landing as fast as a small plane. Hitting a deer can easily take out a wheel at the very least.

 

[JlynnB]

Deer on the runway are fairly common at some of the smaller airports in Michigan as well. I was on a flight that nearly collided with a family of three that seemed to come right out of nowhere, but fortunately nobody got hurt that day, deer included.

 

[ketchupqueen]

*note to self: don't fly to places with deer near the airport*