When turbulence was announced, the girl tried to reach the man again. The irritated passenger suddenly shouted at her to stop waving her hands and sit down, leaving the child frightened and the entire cabin stunned.
A flight attendant then revealed that the man was the girl’s deaf father, flying for the first time. Because he could not hear the announcements, his daughter had been translating the updates and helping calm him whenever he became scared.
The father was also scheduled for cochlear implant surgery the next morning, hoping he might someday hear his daughter’s voice. Ashamed, the passenger apologized, and the father responded that people make mistakes—the important thing is what they choose to do afterward.
