KaerfNomekop
Swim, fishies. Swim through the veil of steel.
- Reaction score
- 613
Delays on the tarmac are typically one of the banes of airline travel. But passengers of El Al Airlines flight 007 erupted in applause earlier this month when pilots decided to return to the gate for a traveler who’d been left behind: Inbar Chomsky, an 11-year-old battling cancer.
Bound for a medical treatment camp in New York, along with 29 other youths, Chomsky was forced to debark when her passport was discovered missing from the Chai Lifeline group’s travel documents. After holding up the plane for an extended search, counselors and crew tearfully escorted the young girl off, according to an account by Rabbi Yaakov Pinsky in The Yeshiva World News. Then, just before takeoff, the passport was found in a fellow camper’s backpack and pilots made the decision to pull a U-turn.
“To understand what Inbar and the other children have been through in their young lives is difficult for most of us to comprehend,” said Danny Saadon, a vice president at El Al Israel Airlines. “As a result, everyone was determined to make sure Inbar would attend camp with her friends.”
Read more.
She's lucky they found it before takeoff.
Bound for a medical treatment camp in New York, along with 29 other youths, Chomsky was forced to debark when her passport was discovered missing from the Chai Lifeline group’s travel documents. After holding up the plane for an extended search, counselors and crew tearfully escorted the young girl off, according to an account by Rabbi Yaakov Pinsky in The Yeshiva World News. Then, just before takeoff, the passport was found in a fellow camper’s backpack and pilots made the decision to pull a U-turn.
“To understand what Inbar and the other children have been through in their young lives is difficult for most of us to comprehend,” said Danny Saadon, a vice president at El Al Israel Airlines. “As a result, everyone was determined to make sure Inbar would attend camp with her friends.”
Read more.
She's lucky they found it before takeoff.
