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About 90 fifth-graders from Tel Aviv piled into an El Al airliner heading off to summer camp in New York. Once in the air, the crew began serving drinks, and the kids got extremely rambunctious. The Captain could hear the flight crew pleading with the children to settle down and let the other passengers get some sleep.
No amount of reasoning seemed to help, until the Captain thought of the solution that actually worked. He picked up the PA microphone in the cockpit and announced, "Children, this is the Captain speaking. Don't make me stop this airplane and come back there!"