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A mum has been slammed for letting her child defecate on the floor of an aeroplane before take-off.

The mother, who has not been named, was severely criticised by cabin crew and passengers when she let her young son use the floor in front of his seat as a loo.

The child’s mother and grandmother were reproached by the chief steward on a Shenzhen Airlines flight leaving Nanjing City, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province.

But the family later said that the "bathroom was too small" and that it would not fit all three - the child, the mother and the grandmother.

The mother ignored the attendant who stepped in during the incident, and even told her young son to take his time, because "we haven’t taken off yet".

The family then left a pile of dirty, used tissue papers on the floor, which angered cabin crew even more.

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The incident was published by Shenzhen Airlines on its official social media account on microblogging website Sina Weibo.

Together with pictures of the indecent incident, the airline also attempted to educate the public by stating that parents could use plastic bags or alert a flight attendant when the child is in urgent need of the restroom.

Reports did not say whether the family would be blacklisted or whether they had received any sort of formal reprimand or fine.