A little boy got lost at the airport and started to cry after he realized his mistake on the plane, but no one paid him any attention until a woman took action.
8-year-old Lucas Adam was told by his mother Evelyn that they would be joining the external family for a day out at a resort.
For Lucas, who had only rarely seen other family members, it was a great opportunity. The call to attend the outing was sent out by Lucas’ mother, Evelyn.
Several siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents were invited, and nobody said no, not when Evelyn revealed the vacation location to be Universal Orlando Resort.
Everyone couldn’t wait to the trip, and they all made adequate preparations for it. Lucas was even more restless because of his anticipation, but he became very worried on the day of departure.
To hide that, the little boy ran circles around his family while talking about the things he would like to see and things he had to see. The noisy chatter that had started that morning quickly tired Lucas’ family out as they all sat in the van taking them to the airport.
Though they fervently prayed that he would pipe down, Evelyn had to resort to threats several times to keep him quiet when he didn’t.
After a long drive, the whole family moved to the plane boarding zone. There they met a sea of people trying to get to different places too.
In the chaos, Lucas made the mistake of letting go of his mom’s hand. When he realized he was lost in the thong of people, he hesitated a bit before panicking, and he immediately saw his family moving towards a plane entrance. Ashamed that he had gotten lost, Lucas kept quiet and rejoined them without a sound.
The air hostess checking people in thought Lucas was with the family she had just waved in, so she let him in too. After finding a comfortable seat, Lucas started looking around for his family.
It was not enough to make him worry because of the fact that it was not his first time on a plane. He knew that they could have been assigned seats anywhere in the plane.
He was happy that he got a window seat, and also felt secure in the knowledge that should he unfasten his seat belts and stand up, his mother would definitely come up to him to chastise him.
After a while, Lucas undid his seat belt and waited for his mom to emerge, but she did not, so he decided he would seek her out on his own.
He wandered about the plane for several minutes, but nobody paid him any attention until he got scared and started crying. He could not understand what was happening.
Tears rolled down his cheeks, Lucas walked between the rows of seats, peering into faces he hoped would recognize him. But none of them did.
“Get out of my face kid,” one impatient man growled, further scaring the distressed boy.
After several minutes of vain attempts, Lucas came back to his seat by the window and began to sob quietly. The man sitting next to Lucas took one look at him and immediately focused his attention on the phone he held.
Lucas continued crying until one woman noticed it. She was the person whom Lucas had initially confused as his mom because of her many kids. He would have cried alone the entire flight if the woman had not walked by.
“Why are you crying little darling?” she asked the boy but got no answer from him until she petitioned the man sitting by his side to take her seat, which was in front, while she replaced him.
She sat, and Lucas opened up. “I can’t find my parents,” he said, fresh tears spilling down his face.
“Where are they?” she asked him, but he shook his head like he didn’t know.
“I thought you were my mom when you passed by with your family so I followed you into the plane. You’re going to Florida too?” Lucas asked.
“What? Florida?” The woman laughed. “We are headed to California —”
That was the moment it hit her. The boy was on a plane bound for California while his parents must have joined the one headed to Florida.
“Oh boy,” the woman whistled.
Meanwhile, the Florida-bound plane was detained at the airport because they were missing a passenger — Lucas, 8.
His mother, who blamed herself, sobbed inconsolably while her husband and other family members tried to fan out and search the airport for him.
Back on the plane headed to California, the woman didn’t know how to fix the problem, so she decided to reach out to a flight attendant.
After describing the situation to the flight attendant, the plane’s pilot was told, but they had traveled some distance, so it was decided that they would try to contact the boy’s family at the airport.
Meanwhile, after a thorough search of the plane bound for Florida, it was confirmed that the boy was nowhere on the plane, allowing it to take off, albeit without Lucas’ family. They remained at the airport in the hopes of locating him.
Several hours later, they were met by an airport official with information on their boy’s whereabouts. “He got on the wrong plane,” the man told them in relief.
A few hours later, the whole family was reunited with Lucas — his mother was especially happy that her son had returned to her in good health.
To herself, she promised to always listen carefully to her son’s stories and hold his hand tightly to avoid the situation ever happening again.
