“From future Captain Seb”: Little boy blows away Jetstar crew with kind gesture
<p>An aviation-obsessed boy’s act of kindness has resulted in him experiencing the “best day of his life.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The card wrote, “From future Captain Seb,” including a drawing of a plane.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“He said it’s the best day of his life so far,” Seb’s mum, Emma, told <a href="http://news.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news.com.au</a>.</p>
<p>“Definitely,” Seb confirmed.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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,”</p>
<p>Seb was not the only one left in awe.</p>
<p>Captain Zerbe was blown away by how much knowledge the young boy had of the Airbus A320.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>“He stops mid-play if he hears something,” Emma said.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>Seb has plans to get his recreational pilot licence when he turns 16.</p>
<p><em>Image credits: Jetstar, Youtube</em></p>
