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N.C. Autistic Boy, Mom Kicked Off American Eagle Plane
foxnews.com — A 2 1/2-year-old autistic North Carolina boy and his mother were kicked off an American Eagle flight taxing to a Raleigh-Durham Airport Monday after the crew deemed the child 'uncontrollable.'
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- Queenwemo, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3There's just empathy in this country anymore! You know, we all have bad days, but if that nasty flight attendant would have just left the poor boy alone he would have been fine. Anyone with half a brain knows about autistic children, and understands that as long as you can keep their "pattern of recognition" going, they are fine.
Then, of course, Standard Operating Procedure states that "nothing the airliner does is wrong, so if you can't find fault, make it".
It's not because prices rose that no one wants to fly anymore, its because quality plummeted! - momofour, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2Queenwemo is absolutely spot on here. This is a sad situation, and I'm sure this boy may have indeed been throwing a 'raging fit'--but it didn't start out that way. He was antagonized by the flight attendant. FIRST--she should not have been addressing the boy, she should have addressed the mother saying, "you need to be sure his belt remains tight." Being in a front row seat means this attendant had a bird's eye view of him and all his wiggling. (hello, don't MOST 2 1/2 year olds wiggle?) The RAGING FIT came after the situation ESCALATED and mom was also upset.
I would suspect that mom knows how to calm the boy, and if given the opportunity, she would have been able to keep him calm, move to another seat or some other situation. It's interesting that they turned the plane around "because she wouldn't stow her bag". Let's ask another passenger about that? If she wouldn't stow the bag, they would never have left the gate in the first place and would have made them disembark before they left if he was uncontrollable at that point.
Sounds like a classic case of CYA to me. - jlbravo93, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0Maybe the attendant was out of line but if someone is screaming and yelling on a flight they shouldn't be permitted on the plane. everyone today is so caught up in the political correctness circle. If a kid is noisy and out of control, autistic or not it shouldn't be accepted.
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