A little boy has been left with mutilated pinky finger after his finger was reportedly caught in a broken in-flight entertainment unit on board a QANTAS flight on January 14.
According to KidSpot, the injury has caused young Cameron to lose part of his finger.
“The entertainment unit kept falling down, and to entertain a two-year-old you have to try to keep that TV up,” his mum, Natalie Dela Cruz told The Daily Telegraph exclusively.
“His hand was on the armrest, and when the unit fell down it cut his finger quite deeply.”
Only having left the Manila tarmac an hour before the incident occurred, the family were told the plane would not turn around so that Cameron could be taken to hospital in Manila, but rather push on with the six-hour journey back to Sydney.
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Thankfully, a doctor also travelling on the flight was able to provide Cameron with medical assistance.
“He was a lifesaver,” mum Natalie told The Daily Telegraph exclusively.
“It felt like the longest, worst flight of my life and we’ve done a lot of flying.”
The naturally traumatised Dela Cruz family are now suing QANTAS for possibly in excess of $200,000, with Shine Lawyers’ Transport Law Principal Thomas Janson stating that their child had suffered a “permanent disability” from this injury that could impact his ability to work in the future.
“The family should’ve been prevented from sitting in those seats and post incident care left much to be desired as well. It was just good fortune that the surgeon was sitting nearby,” he said, as reported by KidSpot.
In response to the incident, a QANTAS spokesperson spoke to The Daily Telegraph, expressing how distressing this incident would be for Cameron and his family.
“We were fortunate to have the assistance of a surgeon on-board and the Captain also briefed MedLink who advised that due to the stable condition of the child it would be better to continue to Sydney,” he said.
