A 3-year-old flying in business class was served a glass of wine — and his mother is not happy

Cathay Pacific apologized to a household aft a formation attendant mistakenly served a 3-year-old lad a solid of achromatic vino with his meal.

The incidental occurred successful concern people connected Flight 255 from Hong Kong to London connected April 24.

The child's parent contacted the South China Morning Post aft initially posting connected a Chinese societal media platform.

The woman, whom the work identified lone by the surname Wong, said the kid took a sip of what helium thought to beryllium h2o and said it tasted sour. His begetter past checked the portion and recovered it was really wine.

The parent said formation attendants rapidly replaced her son's portion with water.

The hose told Business Insider successful a connection that the compartment unit enactment retired a telephone to aesculapian unit aboard the formation and consulted a ground-based aesculapian work earlier monitoring the boy's information for the remainder of the flight.

"During the full process, determination was a deficiency of attraction for my son," the pistillate told the SCMP. "They gave maine the content that they were trying to shirk responsibility."

Cathay Pacific said it "sincerely apologises" for the incident.

"We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and person launched an interior reappraisal to guarantee due follow-up actions are implemented and goodwill is being offered," the hose said. "We volition proceed to enactment and assistance the family."