Lufthansa: A two-year-old doesn't want to wear a mask - then he and his parents are thrown from the plane

Because the two-year-old son refused to wear a mask, a family was thrown from a Lufthansa plane at Frankfurt Airport.

Frankfurt - A small family wanted to fly back to Dallas after their vacation in Bosnia.

But due to strict mask regulations, the return trip turned into a stress test.

Aleksandar Pandurevic and his wife Slavica traveled to Bosnia with their son Yakob in July.

In September it should take a flight via Frankfurt back to their adopted home Dallas.

When they sit in the Lufthansa * plane at Rhein-Main Airport, the big shock follows.

The family has to get off the plane again.

This is reported by the

.

Lufthansa throws family off the plane at Frankfurt Airport

The reason for this is that the two-year-old Yakob refuses to put on his mask.

Papa Aleksandar told

: “A steward accompanied us up to the pilot.

He tried to convince my son Yakob of the face mask.

But it didn't work.

Then a uniformed man escorted us out of the plane.

I was shocked, as if hit by a bullet. "

When

asked for a

, Lufthansa explains that the regulations of the US American Transport Safety Authority (TSA) require passengers aged two and over to wear a face mask.

And that during the entire duration of the flight.

A Lufthansa spokesman said that the family refused to put a mask on their child when boarding the flight in question.

“The captain then decided, following the legal requirements, not to board the family,” Waber continued.

Eyewitness from the Lufthansa plane reports contradicting things

However, a young man from Hamburg, who was also on the plane and sat two rows in front of the family, reports something contradictory.

“The parents gently tried to put a mask on the child.

But the little one struggled and cried.

From my point of view, there was nothing the parents could do, ”he told the newspaper

He himself also has a five-year-old daughter and was previously told on the Lufthansa hotline that there would be no problems if the five-year-old refused to wear the mask.

The Pandurevic family could not have had this experience.

She had to wait four hours at Frankfurt Airport and finally rebooked.

The journey therefore took 36 hours instead of the planned twelve hours.