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[quote]If losing one's grip on the baby is really the concern, they should change the rules to allow parents to wear their babies in a sling, Ergo, mei tai, etc during take off and landing. This should help keep the baby from becoming airborne, and the crushing risk you'd have in a car should not be there. [/quote]

Can you not do this?

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Nope. Many flight attendants wont care, but some will ask you to remove the infant from the carrier. Even lap babies
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Airline person here. Using those devices places baby in the "crush zone." I'm airline exec from above. If you go to the NTSB link I sent you, you'll see a video simulating what would happen if severe turbulence took place with baby in a bjorn / moby / ergo /etc. While it does prevent baby from flying through cabin, it's just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, to have them stuck in the adult's "crush zone." [/quote]

Also, I just wanted to say that when I first had kids, I really couldn't understand why that wasn't safer, because with my moby, baby was almost part of me. But basically your body gets pretty badly flung around during super severe turbulence. I've since been on a flight like that, where the aircraft was dropping hundreds of feet over and over again and getting shot back up by air currents and I could see exactly what they meant by the crush zone. Your body folds up with your body going backward and forward, etc. [/quote]

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