Without wishing to trivialise what could have been a very serious situation, but turned out OK, I can almost guarantee that on the Avianca plane there was an annoying 8 year old saying 'Wow! mummy, does this mean we're going to crash? Brilliant!!!'

Most other passengers are probably thinking that they'd happily throw that annoying brat to the wolves.

I know, because I have been that annoying brat. And, passim I'd probably been the only one listening on how to adopt the brace position.