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If you're such a BIG SHOT, Charter a plane.

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Well there is common curtesy in such matters and it also goes two ways. A child is a child and weather you recall or not we all were a child and were just as controllable as this child was. We weren't! Some kids are easy and some are difficult. As a mature adult I tollerate.

I was in a restaurant in NY a few years ago the the booth next to us had a Downs Syndrome teenager/young adult with his family. He was loud and disruptive however I didn't care. They left before we did and the father came to our table and apologized. I was shocked, I felt he had no control and should not sacrifice living his life and his sons because he was Downs Syndrome young man. I truly felt sorry for the man to feel he needed to do that.

We all can be in disruptive situations at times. We all have disrupted at times with some more than others. I chose not to complain if it's uncontrollable noise only. Combative ot throwing things is way out of control and needs special consideration if this type is active in public.

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Kicked off because of a crying baby? No.

the child was not seated, as required by federal regulation to ensure passenger safety, and was repeatedly in the aisle of the aircraft before departure and during taxi

Singer or not, Blackwood has had two years to learn how to get that toddler to Sit Down. Claiming they were thrown off 'because my son was crying' sounds like a mother who wants to blame everyone else for her own lack of parenting skills. You cannot have a kiddy running up and down an aircraft when everyone is supposed to be safely strapped into their seats, and if the parent was unable to get the kid in a seat the airline had no option but to get the kid off the plane. Would the headline 'Stewardess forcibly straps screaming child into seat' have been preferable?

Blackwood, who is also seven months pregnant with another child

Inquiring minds are curious - what else could she possibly be pregnant with? :-)

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You can't allow babies on your airline and then expect them not to cry. A few airlines realise this and now ban babies from flying.

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The other people on the plane do not have to be subjected to your child crying. It is absolutely not something that they should be expected to endure.There need to be soundproof cry rooms but there are probably legal restrictions against that.

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She should cover the Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner". That'll soothe her 'outraged supporters'.

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh, Oh big ol' jet airliner

Cause it's here that I've got to stay

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Both Ms Blackwood and the article are being disingenuous. She and her child were removed not because he was crying, but because he was not seated as required. You can't take off with a kid in the aisle. Making a fuss and pretending she was kicked off for other reasons makes Ms Blackwood look like a self entitled brat. She was responsible for the 75 minute delay, no one else. She was lucky she wasn't banned form the airline.

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I hate it when people try to rephrase situations to hide their own wrongs.

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I hate it when people try to rephrase situations to hide their own wrongs.

Yes. But who is guilty of that here?

“Despite numerous requests, the child was not seated, as required by federal regulation to ensure passenger safety, and was repeatedly in the aisle of the aircraft before departure and during taxi,” the airline said in a statement defending its decision.

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Fellow passengers, however, denounced the move on United’s Facebook page, saying the mother tried her best to calm her son and that the flight attendant had been “unprofessional, unreasonable and insensitive.”

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Yes. But who is guilty of that here?

Impossible to say for sure, but if I was a betting man, I'd say the singer is. I've been on flights with kids who were crying or even having temper tantrums, and the flight still took off. I don't see airlines kicking parents off for this. But I could see an airline kicking someone off because their kid wouldn't sit down - the plane can't take off with standing passengers. It can take off with crying passengers however.

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A two-year-old is not a baby. It's a toddler at its most difficult age, for itself, parents and others. Hard to control. Responsibility for its actions lies with the parents. If they can't restrain it you can't just administer a sedative. It's off you go.

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By the time the jetliner reached the gate, they noted, the toddler had fallen asleep.

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Maybe he was sleepy?

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