By COLlive reporter
Spirit Airlines has deplaned an entire flight from Orlando, Florida to New York on Monday. According to reports, the reason was that a 2-year-old girl was not wearing a face mask.
The child was part of an Orthodox Jewish family that included a father, a mother and a boy with special needs.
“Seven months pregnant with a special needs kid… who has seizures,” the mother was seen saying in a video clip.
The toddler was eating yogurt on her mother’s lap when a flight attendant instructed the family to exit the plane, Yeshiva World News reported.
Video footage shows the entire cabin being deplaned as a result of what has become a repeated point of contention between parents flying with infants and flight crews on several U.S. airlines.
“They are throwing the whole family and now they are deplaning the whole plane – because a 2-year-old isn’t wearing a mask,” one passenger said in a voice note to COLlive.com. Many of the flight’s passengers were frum Jews returning from Pesach vacation in Florida.
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In late July, major U.S. airlines started revising their policies from “young children” being exempt from wearing masks to “all children age 2 and up” being required to wear a face-covering in order to fly, ABC News reported.
These incidents have inspired a Change.org petition calling for the airlines to increase their minimum age requirement for mask use, but the carriers say their policies align with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that any child over the age of two should wear a mask, ABC said.
The World Health Organization, on the other hand, says children aged five years and under should not be required to wear masks, it was reported.
Update:
The confrontational flight attendant was removed from duty. Passengers boarded the plane again, including the family that has been the target.
ITS NOT WORTH IT . TAKE A CAR OR STAY HOME .
KIDS CANT SIT FOR 3 HRS WITH A MASK
Spirit’s rule is that anyone older than two must wear a mask. That child didn’t wear a mask (not only when he was eating). Spirit enforced their own rules.
They claim the adults weren’t wearing masks either. He is even taking it off during the video when talking to them. I think if we can try to have respect and remain calm before calling our lawyers and getting mean these things can be deescalated. Chilul Hashem is a thing. It doesn’t excuse biased flight personal. But we should be better than this.
He was eating
SImply do not go anywhere!!
I travel 2hrs every day and kids can not wear a mask.
If every passenger refused to wear a mask, airlines would quickly change their requirements. There is no health logic to this. At this point, covid is a virus like any other. We made it to the 21st century without masks, with G-d’s help, we will continue. Money talks. If there were no passengers…… we’d win quickly enough.
You wanna die? Mask’s help!! I was on a flight with a friend one week ago and i thank g-d was wearing a mask and he wasn’t. This week he was diagnosed with covid.
I have come out with a negative cuz i was wearing a mask on that flight.
Are you kidding????
It’s a 2 year old eating!!!!!
The child was eating…. The headlines is misleafing. When your eating, you can remove your mask. She was masked when NOT eating.
He could’ve gotten COVID anywhere else you can’t just blame it on not wearing a mask.
I agree. People should wear masks. But that isn’t how masks work. Masks prevent YOU from spreading COVID by slowing down the particles you expel. For example, a sneeze can travel several feet and travel at 30 mph. But, Covid propellent is too small for a mask to prevent from penetrating the mask. So it is quite possible that your friend would have gotten COVID even if they had been wearing a mask, or that they didn’t get COVID on that flight, but contracted it before or after they boarded. By all means, continue to wear your mask. But you… Read more »
science has proven masks and distancing doesn’t work. its all lies. get over it. it was used to cheat the elections and get the greatest president out of the wh.
Show us this so called science that says that masks do not work. Please.
Masks are made and exist for a few reasons. One of them is to contain the spread of viruses. That’s a fact and real science backs that up. Stop spreading false information. People’s lives are at risk and just because 99% of your community may have had covid already, it doesn’t give you the right to to spread bad information and jeopardize the lives of other people. That’s Torah 101.
notice the words “your community” this is obviously a troll
can you show scientific proof that masks work, stop fear mongering, and spreading false info that you safe.
You sure you got covid on the flight? Sounds like you’re making an assumption. BTW, how is it that you’re friend was allowed to fly while not wearing a mask. Your story isn’t adding up. I’m thinking you’re just a troll making stuff up. I think the male flight attendant is anti-Semitic. I also think Spirit Airlines should fire him for being racist. I also think covid has given people, especially flight attendants, the authority to be racist, prejudiced idiots. Traveling is hard enough without all the fear mongering narks trying to make other people’s lives harder. If you’re take… Read more »
Masks do not block viral particles! Ever!
Really? Your science degree is from where exactly?
Then your belief in non jewish humans comes from where exactly?
Yeah, show us the studies please. It’s laughable what you’ve been brainwashed to believe.
The transmission of Covid-19 on surfaces “is considered to be low,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Monday. The risk of infection is “generally less than 1 in 10,000.”
If you really believe that your mask is what protected you then you’re as stupid as those who believe red strings protect them.
And assuming you’re under about 80 and in reasonable general health you’re an idiot to worry about catching it anyway. The propaganda that it is killing significant numbers of healthy young people is simply lies.
So. Science is wrong and kabbalah and segulahs?? Detox your hate and anger. The election is over. Let’s move on with Sholom and Kovod. The maga “punch back” is not in line with torah values.
The commenter above you is correct. Masks preventing the spread of Wuhan flu, or of any other virus, is not science, but the opposite. That was recognized by all scientists until 2020, and even now a significant number of them say so.
As for the “hate and anger,” look in the mirror, because you, not that commenter, are showing that, as evidenced by your immediate jump to accusations of “maga punch back.”
Masks help. Period.
They are not fool proof, but wearing one correctly is better than not wearing one at all. Just because you and many in your community have likely had covid and are at a low risk for re-infection, it doesn’t give you the right to put other people in danger. Get over yourself.
I am thoroughlY outraEd at the lack of intelligence in this conversation as proven by many study’s (a fw I partiCipated myself in) that the transmission rate squared by the deatH rate (depending on age) Is .00000347 out of 100,000 people which is less then the risk of flying on a airplane which is .000005 so thank you and fly safely
how do you know this friend got the virus on the flight, 99 percent of people with covid do not die, stop the insanity.
I will wear a mask on all flights!!
I dunno about you!!
so pathetic, they would never do this do blacks. they know they can get away with it towards jews
When something antisemitic happens why do I always see people making statements like this? You are implying that we are treated more unfairly then Black people. Both Black and Jewish communities are treated unfairly all the time in different ways. Do we need to compare who has it worse? Your statement could just end in “this is antisemitic”, let’s think about why you would bring up the Black community at all. If you are concerned about antisemitism, you should be concerned about racism. Did you know Black people don’t liked being called “blacks”, Or “the blacks”. Let’s show respect as… Read more »
there are literally countless stories of this happening to non-Jewish people, but enjoy your bubble.
Well, then, refer us to one of those “countless” examples, if they exist.
Remember back in the 80’s when people that wanted to hijack a flight needed to actually smuggle guns onto the plane… they could’ve saved themselves the trouble by just NOT bringing a face mask…
hijacking planes is from the early 2 mid 70s not the 80s, learn ur facts
Wow. How about you learn your facts. There were 33 hijacking and/or hijack attempts in the 1980s. Before you talk down to someone, why don’t you google the facts first. It’s listed clearly on wikipedia one by one.
isn’t a matter of to travel or not the antisemites are showing them real face
Every time an airline fusses about a two year old not wearing a mask we should boycott that airline and put them out of business!
Or just never fly spirit or frontier. They always have terrible service for years. And very bad cs. You need to be able to call them.
Pure anti-Semitism enough is enough!!
Bring out all the shopping bags and tin foil with sandwiches and schnitzel before takeoff. They love when you do that.
Masks make no sense ! Are annoying! Simple communism!
There is no proof that mask works.
OMG!! You ppl in crown heights are not mask wearers! Ppl in the UK – London specifically we ALL wear masks!! I travel almost every day 1hr 30mins – 2hrs and me for sure have minimized many, many risks of catching covid so far!! You guys need a little bit of education. Lemme tell ya all that you guys are lucky that you are no where near close to having a Pesach like last year BH. But, look everywhere else across the world. Masks & Sanitzization has saved 1000’s of ppl for sure!! If maks do not help then I… Read more »
The superstitious have always had some talisman to which they could attribute their good fortune. Used to be things like their favorite idolatrous image, or a rabbit’s foot, or whatever; now it’s a mask.
Meanwhile, in Crown Heights we’re having a fine time of it, BH. We had a severe outbreak last year, sure (mind you, that was when the “public health experts,” of the likes of Fauxci, were saying _not_ to wear masks), but not since then.
In Crown Heights last week my son was on oxygen in hospital because of Covid. BH he is home now but still seriously weak and unable to do anything. Don’t think you are above the law. Wear masks when around other people for your sake and theirs.
Masks still don’t help- being careful with hygiene might
this is such a grub, kaltekeit, trumpism response. The commenter just wrote that his son was in the hospital and you have the chutzpah to tell him masks dont help, hygiene? What is wrong with us, please, this insanity has to end. Since 2016 our community has lost as sense of chessed and ahavas yisroel and basic mentshlichkeit, and replaced it with MAGA MAGA MAGA
Refuah shleimah to your son. People who want to wear masks – gezunterheit, but let’s not pretend that he wouldn’t have gotten it if everyone was wearing one, because it just ain’t so. Take a look, for example, at the states that have no mask mandates, and notice that their infection rates are far lower.
oi shekain oi sheloi
You say yourself we are nowhere near having the pesach we had last year. Our community has passed the bump BH ( and what a large one that was). Few masks and we are doing fine thank god. Different communities may want to be more careful specifically if they had not had a big spread yet. You do you, don’t hate on us- especially since you yourself realize that no harm is coming from us just acting like normal humans.
more than thousands
I apologize on behalf of my fellow new yorkers/americans, we are super super lazy and entitlted and dont think science is real, or facts, we just like to yell about libs and the goverment trying to control us.
despite all science saying masks help, and rules that EVERY SINGLE other passenger has to follow, but this guy said he is gonna call his lawyer, so … i guess were special, dont dare tell us what to do.
The chilul hashem we make, hashem yishmor, we were once better than this …
but there is also no proof that they don’t work. so who are you to decide not to wear one in a case of ‘sofeik pikuach nefesh’?
There’s just as much evidence for masks as for red strings, i.e. none to speak of. So who are you to decide not to wear a red string in a case of “sofeik pikuach nefesh”?
You must stand on your head for 60 minutes at a time, every day, and also send $1000 each to five random people once a week. There’s no proof that those don’t work, and by your logic you must do those because of safek pikuach nefesh.
oh please. don’t play that game please. don’t make me explain to you why they are different. They are different because 1) There are MANY studies (I know, I know, just studies, not evidence) which show that masks DO work, whereas there are NO studies showing that what you said works. 2) It is very conceivable (even to someone who did no research) why masks could possibly work, whereas it is absolutely inconceivable why what you said would work (and hey, maybe that’s why I haven’t heard about it at all) 3) Your way includes spending a lot of money… Read more »
That us like saying always wear a helmet cuz maybe you’ll be hit by a car
5 year old boy rushed to ER with severe respiratory illness caused by what DR termed as mask overuse-
Then they’ll learn
Pure and poshut Anti Jews.
We are still in golus.
Just curious, what makes you sure that it is anti-Semitism and not just an irrational stewardess? Don’t get me wrong, Anti-Semitism is a strong possibility, but you should really learn to only make bold statements against other people if you have clear proof of their wrongdoing.
יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן פְּרַחְיָה אוֹמֵר, עֲשֵׂה לְךָ רַב, וּקְנֵה לְךָ חָבֵר, וֶהֱוֵי דָן אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם לְכַף זְכוּת
אבות א׳:ו׳
You’re right that it may not be antisemitism, and one shouldn’t make definite statements that may not be true, but what difference does it make whether it is or is not antisemitism? Why is an antisemitic motive worse than whatever other bigotry or superstition or power trip may have been bugging this person? Where is it written that it’s wrong for nochrim to be antisemites? Are they metzuveh in ahavas yisroel?!
umm… maybe because if it’s not Anti-Semitism, then they are just taking advantage of their power. And if it is anti semetism, then they are taking advantage of their power AND being anti-semitic.
And nobody said they are metzuveh in ahavas yisroel. but as YOU said, it is still wrong, both on a Torah level, and on a politicly correct level.
If they were black this would never happen cuz the flight attendant knows the repercussions it would have
I traveled with my husband, who looks very Jewish, a week ago, and had the exact same experience. It was an early flight and while he was eating his breakfast, the black stewardess insisted that he wear his mask. Even though he promised to wear the mask as soon as he finishes the sandwich, she informed us that the pilot will remove him from ever traveling on this airline. Across the aisle a person was drinking his coffee and she passed him by without saying a word. I complained to the airline, and as yet have not received a response.… Read more »
Anti semites will one day learn the hard way. Not that they already haven’t but yeah.
Wait for it – people will say “black lives matter and the steward can’t go to jail”…
it will be a while until another one of these stories happens flight attendants dont want to lose their jobs the power trip is over for them as it has been shown there is thankfully accountibility for abusers spirit doesnt want their employees to make parents of 2 yr olds crazy about mask wearing it comes across as nit picky and cold i flew recently with spirit the same stewardess told me to pull my mask up over my nose twice both times it was up but i guess not enough to her liking I was chewing gum and it… Read more »
Literally all you need to do is get a letter from a doctor saying that your two year old has “sensory issues” and cannot wear a mask. This will qualify them for exemption, and every airline must legally honor that.
It says on the Spirit Airlines site that 2 year olds and up need a mask. The flight attendant was just doing her job.
On take-off, one is not allowing wed to have the tray down.
Two year olds are supposed to be in their own seat.
It was a chilul Hashem.
I don’t care what the web site says. If a 2-year-old refuses to wear a mask what do you expect the parents to do? 2-year-olds can’t be reasoned with. And if you try to forcibly hold a mask onto a screaming child’s face you should be arrested.
It was not take off yet, and she was using her job the wrong way if an adult refuses to wear a mask that one thing but if a 2 year old is not wearing a mask when she is eating then that is no reason to kick a family off.
This doesnt feel like America anymore SICK SICK sick
Spirit airlines posted a comment blaming the parents, then removed it. That should say enough
What a disgusting way to treat a family with children!!!!!
Isn’t it amazing how they’re crazy about wearing a mask (most of which are Chinese made KN95 masks (KN stands for knock off) and re NOT for medical purposes, but the airlines pack people into the planes like sardines!!
the masks are just political.
Surely. Political across the world. SMH
this is why i dont fly spirit.