She later realised her baby was missing after the plane had already taken off.

The unidentified woman then informed the cabin crew she had forgotten her baby who then informed the pilot – After a series of consultations, the flight was cleared to return back to the airport.

The woman was then re-united with her baby whom she had left at the departure’s waiting hall In rare cases, mostly a major emergency case are flights generally cleared to return to airports to collect a forgotten article. Well then a strange emergency case, ensued at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz International Airport after a woman forgot her newborn baby at the airport.

According to Gulf News, despite being naturally connected to a baby as a mother, the unidentified woman boarded the Saudi Arabian Airlines flight without a worry in the world.

She only realised she had left her baby at the departure waiting hall after the aircraft had taken off from the airport.

On realisation, she informed the cabin crew she had forgotten her baby at the terminal forcing the pilot to turn Flight SV832 from Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Jeddah, to Kuala Lumpur back.

The incident shocked not only the crew but also other passengers and Air Traffic Control (ATC) operators.

The video of the pilot requesting ATC operators to return to the airport has since gone viral on social media with many wondering just how does one forget their baby. “This flight is requesting to come back…a passenger forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing,” the pilot can be heard in the video.