JetBlue joins war on children- Boots family from plane due to toddler's tantrum

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11. From what we know, no

There's alot we don't know, so it makes it difficult to be certain.

But the suggestion was that this bordered on sustained and recurring problem. From the pilots perspective, he potentially could have a child that ANYWHERE during take off could have repeated the problem. Furthermore, there could be a repeat performance A) at landing time B) during an inflight period of severe air disturbance C) during an emergency including an emergency evacuation. You had one passenger that could have ended up consuming excessive amounts of assistance from the flight crew. The reason that they kick you off if you're "too drunk" is basically because if there is a severe emergency, you can be too hammered to reasonably be able to participate in the emergency activities.

A friend of mine is a pilot. For a long time he flew the 50 seat commuter jets. He basically "saw" every person that got on his plane. Wasn't hard, they weren't always full. He said that he, and the crew, just knew who was going to be the pains. He was doing a "round trip' and on the way back he already knew the air was going to be "rough". He said he saw one guy get on and he just knew he was going to be a problem all the way through. He claimed to even spend a little time seeing if there was anything he could do to get him off.

Sure enough, the guy broke every instruction given. Complained all the way. They made an announcement soon after take off to "get everything you'll need now 'cause the light will be coming back on". The guy left stuff sitting in the aisle, he kept getting up for more stuff, wanted more cabin service even though it had been suspended. Kept hitting the attendant button. Just about anything to piss off the crew.

So you can imagine a pilot that saw a situation with this kid and thought that the best thing he could do was to act while he could.