“From future Captain Seb”: Little boy blows away Jetstar crew with kind gesture
An aviation-obsessed boy’s act of kindness has resulted in him experiencing the “best day of his life.”
Little Seb, 11, was travelling from Brisbane to Melbourne with his family for a holiday when he gave the Jetstar crew a homemade thank you card.
The card wrote, “From future Captain Seb,” including a drawing of a plane.
The message was relayed to the pilot, Captain Hadrian Zerbe, who found it so sweet that he invited Seb into the cockpit for a chat as other passengers left the aircraft.
Captain Zerbe was so touched by Seb’s love for aviation that he then invited the 11-year-old to come back and visit the Jetstar hangar.
“He said it’s the best day of his life so far,” Seb’s mum, Emma, told news.com.au.
“Definitely,” Seb confirmed.
Seb is a big fan of plane spotting and playing flight simulator games but said he had never been so close to a real plane.
When asked about the coolest part of the experience, Seb replied, “When I walked around the plane close up, it was just so big. Bigger than I expected. All the engines were massive,”
Seb was not the only one left in awe.
Captain Zerbe was blown away by how much knowledge the young boy had of the Airbus A320.
“I’ve certainly never met an 11-year-old who knows so much about aviation and hopefully he’ll be sitting in the flight deck as a pilot some day soon,” the captain said.
Emma said planes consume most of her son’s thoughts; even before he could talk, he was overjoyed whenever he heard a plane fly above.
“If I find something I tend to research it for the rest of the night before I go to bed,” Seb said regarding his aviation research, which he takes very seriously.
“He stops mid-play if he hears something,” Emma said.
“Every story or picture has always been a plane. At school, it’s always planes that come home. He doesn’t deviate much from that.”
Seb has plans to get his recreational pilot licence when he turns 16.
Image credits: Jetstar, Youtube