Thai Airways Flight Attendant Praised for Feeding Elderly Passenger
By Chris Kitching, The Daily Mail | Feb. 15, 2016
A flight attendant has won the hearts of people around the world after he was photographed feeding an elderly passenger on a Thai Airways flight.
The photo, captured by a fellow traveller on a flight from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur last week, has gone viral on the internet.
Passengers who witnessed the moment were moved by the flight attendant's kind gesture and heaped praise on him for helping the man, who was unable to feed himself.
Thomas Lim, who snapped the photo and shared it on Facebook, wrote online that he was touched by the act.
He added: "Very good to see kindness like this. His kindness should be applauded and praised."
Lim, a passenger on flight TG417, took the photo last Thursday from his seat on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
In a similar incident last December, Hainan Airlines flight attendant Fan Xuesong knelt down and fed a 71-year-old man, who had recently suffered a stroke and was unable to grip a spoon.
Photos of the moment, which occurred on a flight from Zhengzhou to Hainan in south China, moved millions in China.
Fan later told reporters: "When I started to feed him dinner, the old man suddenly began to cry."
The man, identified only as a retired professor named Mr Niu, was left partially paralysed and wheelchair bound after the stroke.