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Autistic toddler kicked off airplane at Raleigh Durham Airport
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by sweet east pearl | June 25, 2008 at 04:29 pm
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An American Eagle flight taxiing to a Raleigh-Durham Airport runway was turned around Monday, but not because of a terrorist threat.
The crew was kicking an autistic Cary toddler and his mother off the plane.
As the American Eagle flight headed down the taxiway, two-and-a-half-year-old Jarett Farrell wasn't a happy traveler.
His mother says she was doing all she could to calm the autistic boy, but got no sympathy from the flight crew.
"If they just would have been a little more understanding I think that none of this would have been a problem," Mother, Janice Farrell said
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at 16:47 on June 25th, 2008
wuut!? I canot believe they did that. Ive been on many flights where babies are crying or children yelling, but they dont get kicked off. I dont see why this lady and her baby would be.
at 17:10 on June 25th, 2008
Yeah...it's very pethatic. Remove the mother and her autisctic son was not appropiate things to do. I believe that the flight crews have been trained how to act in any situations and how to handle passengers with special needs, so this kind of incident should have not happened.