A Canadian flight was canceled because a small child did not have a mask

According to a BBC News article, the plane was made to take off from Calgary to Toronto on Tuesday, and flight attendants called on parents to put on a mask for their young children for the trip.

As the children’s father, Safwan Choudhry, said their three-year-old daughter took off her mask because she had just eaten, while their 19-month-old daughter was crying hysterically. The man asked the staff to let the little girl finish eating, but this was not allowed, so the little girl put on the mask. However, the 19-month-old girl could not be put on because she cried so much that she vomited.

The flight attendants therefore called the family to leave the plane and called police for help.

According to the father, the flight attendants acted very aggressively against them, threatening them with arrest, indictment and imprisonment if they did not leave the plane.

The man said many passengers were sympathetic to them, but there were those who condemned them. As he added, he and his wife were in masks all along, behaving respectfully. Eventually, they agreed to land.
They later looked into Canadian rules and found that the 19-month-old didn’t even have to wear a mask.

WestJet said in a statement that the three-year-old did not wear a mask either.
However, according to the father’s phone recording, the little girl was wearing a mask and police officers boarding also confirmed that the child was wearing a mask.

After the family left, the airline canceled and postponed the flight until the next day because the atmosphere on board did not make the crew feel safe.

(Source: marmalade.co.hu; MTI | Image: pixabay.com)