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Please just read the article. They were traveling back from Disney and had a layover in TX. The daughter would not eat at the time so the mother did have snacks but tried to inform the flight crew as soon as they boarded.

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“The woman said the girl “posed a threat” to the safety of the passengers and crew and hadn’t been removed because of her autism.

“She was maybe proposing some kind of threat to about 170 other people at 36,000 feet, which doesn’t make anyone feel safe,” she told KOIN6 News.

“What if she got crazy and got up and opened an exit door at 36,000 feet?”

She also claimed the airline staff had worked “quietly” with the family for about an hour before the emergency landing was executed.

“There was a lot of howling, and we thought well, what’s going on? And it never stopped,” she said.

Mrs Beegle said she had filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration and is planning a lawsuit against United Airlines.”