The video shows a Spirit Airlines flight attendant threatening to kick a family of four from Florida from a plane in Florida, arguing that their 2-year-old girlfriend is not wearing a mask.
All the passengers on the flight from Orlando to Atlantic City eventually had to get off the plane before being allowed back on board.
In footage posted on social media, a flight attendant told the Jewish family – including a toddler sitting on her pregnant mother’s lap and eating yogurt and a father with his mask around his chin – that they should leave the plane because they did not follow the mask rules .
The father pulled his mask over his mouth and nose, but the Spirit employee nodded after the collision and said according to the clip: “She is not wearing a mask.”
‘The baby?’ replied the mother in disbelief.
A woman sitting next to them points out that ‘many children do not wear masks. ‘
You sat next to me. Did I wear the mask all the time? Did I all wear the mask? ‘says the father, who took off his mask several times during the meeting and pulled it up again.
‘I’ll make sure he wears it. Everything will be fine, ”says a man who apparently filmed the interaction.
The mother argued: “It’s just a child and a two-year-old.”
“It’s not my choice. You have to take your things and get off, “the airline worker insisted, repeatedly saying that the family” does not follow the mask policy. “
“We’re done talking. The pilot wants to take you away, so you have to get off, ”she said.
The mother went on to plead that ‘She is a baby. She just turned 2 a month ago. She tried to wear it. ‘
The flight attendant threatened to call police before walking away, according to the video.
Another clip shows how all the passengers packed up as the father tell someone“The captain was fine with that, the whole plane was fine with that, but there was one African-American who was not fine.”
He also notes that his wife is pregnant, that his daughter has just turned 2 and that his son, who was sitting nearby, has special seizures and is having seizures.
A third video showed police in the walkway leading out of the plane, while one female officer heard, ‘It was them who was the problem’, as the family apparently passed by.
Orlando police said they were called just before noon Monday for a general disturbance aboard a Spirit flight outside the airport.
‘On arrival the officers saw that the flight was in the middle of departure. “Our officers assisted while Spirit Airlines solved the problem,” a spokesman said.
A representative of Spirit insisted at The Post that it was the parents who violated the airline’s policy and that their offense was not captured on camera.
The family received a warning and allowed them to board the flight again and go to their destination, the representative said.
Some social media posts and The Daily Mail alleges that a male flight attendant, who was also allegedly involved in the spitting, was kicked off the flight and ‘escorted’ by police, citing a video showing him in the terminal near some police walk.
A spokesman for Spirit explained that the employee was actually only leaving due to a crew.
‘The only thing that happened to the flight attendant was that after two hours of delay a crew had to be called, and that someone caught the police coming to the gate for the general situation to close the venue at the same time. as this flight attendant. go to their next assignment, ”Field Sutton 101.5 spokesman told New Jersey.
Sutton told The Post: ‘There is no truth in claiming that an air hostess’ was not allowed to board again’ or that the police became involved with an air hostess. Orlando police have publicly stated that although they were at the gate, they did not take an active role in this situation. ”
Spirit requires all passengers to wear face masks over their nose and mouth, except when eating or drinking. Children under the age of 2 were released.