A Southwest flight crew booted a "cranky-2-year-old" off an Amarillo, Texas-to-San Jose, Calif., flight because the boy "was acting too much his age," The Associated Press reports. AP writes "Pamela Root says she was confident her son Adam's screams of 'Go! Plane! Go!' and 'I want Daddy!' would subside once they took off Monday. Instead, she says the plane returned to the gate in Amarillo, Texas, and the pair was escorted off."
The San Jose Mercury News, which appears to have broken the story, writes "with her luggage heading back home without her, Root was stuck in Amarillo, Texas, and forced to buy a portable crib and diapers and stay another night with her parents. Still fuming, she wants Southwest to apologize and compensate her for the flight and things she bought. Adam's father, Mike Root, a software engineer at Symantec, who was waiting for them in San Jose, is also livid."
Spokeswoman Marilee McInnis tells the Mercury News it's "very rare'' to ask someone to get off flight, adding that it’s especially "unusual" to remove a crying child. The paper says Southwest is investigating the incident "at the request of the Mercury News."
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