Waylon is two years old and has asthma.
So there was excitement on a plane - in the end, he and his mother had to get out.
USA - Little Waylon should have a nice trip to see his grandparents in Colorado.
His mother, Amanda Pendarvis, booked a flight for herself and her two year old son.
She wanted to travel with an American Airlines plane.
Nothing came of the relaxed trip: Because of the airline's Corona requirements, Waylon and his mother experienced an ordeal at the airport.
Even the police had to intervene.
Because the mask slipped: the airline throws child (2) with asthma from the plane
Waylon is asthmatic. The two-year-old now and then suffers from severe seizures that make him cough heavily. During particularly severe asthma attacks - his mother reports on Instagram - the little one hyperventilates. This also happened to the toddler on the plane just before the plane took off. Because of his illness, their journey came to an abrupt end.
When Waylon was shaken by a coughing fit on the plane, the mask that the two-year-old boy had to wear slipped. Due to the Corona * pandemic, there is a strict mask requirement on American Airlines flights - even for children from two years of age, as the airline announces on its website. With his persistent coughing fit, the two-year-old's mouth and nose protection kept slipping. A flight attendant did not feel sorry for the coughing child: mother and son had to get off the plane. Amanda Pendarvis comments the ruthless action of the flight attendant on Instagram with a lot of sarcasm: "Thank you for your courage, Carl on flight AA 1284. You really showed your poise and threw this little monster out of the plane."
Corona requirements: mother with her asthmatic son is thrown from the plane
On Instagram, the mother described the dramatic scenes that took place.
The videos she posted in her story.
showed how little Waylon with a mask * sits on her lap and is shaken by coughing fits.
The two-year-old cries and does not allow his desperate mother to calm him down.
The mask slips because the helpless toddler with asthma coughs so hard.
Mother Amanda tries again and again to put another mask on the boy - but in vain.
Asthma attack in a toddler: police officers intervene
The flight attendant was obviously observing the scene - and called three policemen into the plane, who escorted the mother and son from the plane. As Amanda writes, "a terrible and humiliating moment" for the young mother. She tried everything, but it just didn't work because of the violent coughing fits. “I don't refuse a mask,” writes the American. "I really have no words for it," she writes. "It didn't matter that my child was literally hyperventilating due to his asthma." Amanda showed the flight attendant a negative corona test of her son. Waylon also has a doctor's certificate exempting the two-year-old from wearing a mask, she says. The flight attendant didn't care.
USA: Corona requirements ensure that people are thrown out of the plane - mother wanted to go to Colorado
After all: A few hours after the scandal on the plane, Amanda posted a new picture on Instagram *.
Your son sleeps peacefully in her arms.
She added, "We arrived at my in-laws in Colorado".
As American Airlines told the platform
nationalfile.com
, Amanda and her son had been rebooked - and were allowed to take the next flight to Colorado.
The airline says nothing about whether the ordeal was actually necessary in advance.
The airline's crackdown is also curious because American Airlines recently even allowed a woman to ride a horse on a plane.
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