Atlanta – A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant’s request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying “Bye bye, plane.”
Kate Penland, of Atlanta, said she and her 19-month-old son, Garren, were flying from Atlanta to Oklahoma last month on a Continental Express flight that made a stop in Houston.
As the plane was taxiing in Houston en route to Oklahoma, the child started saying “Bye bye, plane,” Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta. The flight attendant objected, she said.
“At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, ‘It’s not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up,’ ” Penland said.
When Penland asked the woman if she was joking, she said the flight attendant replied, “You know, it’s called baby Benadryl.”
Penland said the flight attendant announced they were turning around and that Penland and Garren would be taken off the plane.
A spokeswoman for Express Jet Airlines, which flies as Continental Express, said the company intends to investigate.
