A video of a plane passenger screaming back at a crying child has reignited a long‑running argument over how children should behave on flights and how adults should respond to them. The clip, filmed more than a decade ago, is now circulating again and has split opinion between those who sympathise with exhausted parents and those who back frustrated fellow passengers.
A man named Mike Jacobs filmed the video on 23 March, 2013 during a flight from Scottsdale to New York, with a screaming child audible in the background as passengers boarded. Shared by the Daily Mail on social media, the footage shows Jacobs sitting in his seat as the child's cries grow louder, before an unseen man suddenly screams back in the same cabin. The child appears to calm down after the outburst, although neither the shouting passenger nor the child is visible in the clip.
