A mother from New Jersey said that the flight crew on board a recent United Airlines flight instructed her to remove her child’s ventilator and tracheostomy tube and to stow the medical equipment so the flight could take off.
Melissa Sotomayor shared on TikTok that she was told by airline employees that she would have to remove her 21-month-old son’s breathing devices before a March 9 flight between Tampa, Florida, and Newark, New Jersey.
She said on the social media platform, “This…
