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A 3-year-old Gets Kicked Off Plane Because Of Ipad by lemm: 12:39am On Jun 04, 2012
A 3-year-old on an Alaska Airlines flight plane threw such severe conniptions after hisiPad was taken away before takeoff that he (and his family) were removed from the plane

It seems that the unnamed 3-year-old is the son of Washington State resident Mike Yanchak. The family was reportedly flying to St. Martin Island from Seattle. The boy was playing quietly with an iPad before takeoff. But once the iPad had been taken away, a particular kind of hell was let loose.

Well, Yanchak told KIRO-FM radio: "He was crying, being cranky. I started putting him in his seat. I put his seatbelt on. But he was being cranky, trying to be close to me, so he wasn't fully fastened yet."
Oh, which of us ever goes through life fully fastened? Still, we know that airlines can be a little picky about their fasteners. So, even though the plane was already heading for the runway, the captain decided to turn back and have the little boy deplaned.
This despite Yanchak's claim that his wife had come back from first class -- where she was sitting with her mother and 1-year-old -- and calmed the gadget-deprived boy down.
Alaska Airlines said this was a judgment call on the captain's part. The boy wouldn't sit upright and wouldn't keep his seatbelt on.
The airline told the Daily News: "We regret the inconvenience to the Yanchuk family, however, our flight crew made the necessary decision to direct them to take another flight after the parents were unable to ensure their son complied with FAA regulations to sit properly in his seat with his seat belt fastened. The fact that the child repeatedly laid across the seat with the seat belt at his throat was particularly concerning to our crew."

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