Crying baby causes plane commotion
A woman who refused a flight attendant’s request to medicate her son to quiet him down was kicked off a plane, according to her account.
“Bye, bye plane,” the 19-month-old kept saying, according to her mother, Kate Penland. The pair were flying from Atlanta to Oklahoma on a Continental plane that made a stop in Houston, said the AP.
‘It’s not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up,”‘ the flight attendant told Ms Penland.
She asked the attendant if she was joking. The stewardess replied: “You know, it’s called baby Benadryl.” Ms Penland said other passengers began speaking up on her behalf, and the flight attendant announced they were turning around and that mother and child were going to be taken off the plane.
Ms Penland and her son were let off the plane and did not complete the trip to Oklahoma, said Kristy Nicholas, spokeswoman for ExpressJet Airlines, which flies as Continental Express on behalf of Continental Airlines.
“I was crying, I was upset and I was thinking, ‘What am I going to do? I don’t have anything with me, I don’t have any more diapers for the baby, no juice, no milk,” Ms Penland told a television station.
The airline says it is investigating.
Report by David Wilkening
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