- A mother and six children were flown out of a Jet Blue flight on Wednesday after their 2-year-old child could not hold her face mask, NBC New York reported.
- The mother, Chaya Bruck, was asked to leave the plane by a flying attendant after Bruck’s daughter went through her face mask.
- “They were terribly annoying, my kids were crying. Really traumatic,” she told NBC New York. “I asked her, ‘Should I tie her hands and feet? What do you want me to do?’ They just wanted me off the plane. “
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A mother and her family were removed from a Jet Blue flight after one of their children did not wear a face mask, NBC New York reported.
According to the report, the incident was recorded via mobile phone. The mother, Chaya Bruck, was on a flight from Orlando to Newark when an airplane told her she had to get off the plane because her 2-year-old child was not wearing face mask, the news report reported.
Bruck told NBC that the presenter said her child “had to cover her nose and her mouth, and I said I could try, but then she pulled it off.”
“A few minutes later they came to me and they told me I had to collect my things and that I had to get off the plane,” she said.
Bruck did not want the plane out and many passengers on board defended it, NBC New York reported. Attendees then told all flyers to get off the plane during the changeover, according to the report. Bruck and her six children were not allowed to reboard the plane.
“They were terribly annoying, my kids were crying. Really traumatic,” she told NBC New York. “I asked her, ‘Should I tie her hands and feet? What do you want me to do?’ They just wanted me off the plane. “
Jet Blue face mask policy requires all travelers over 2 years of age to wear face cover on the flight and at the airport. NBC News reported that Bruck said she hopes the airline will change its policy for children who cannot keep their face mask on.
According to NBC News, Jet Blue spokesman Derek Dombrowski said the airline’s policy is “consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that masks should not be worn by children under 2 years of age.”
JetBlue did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
