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Melissa Sotomayor says a United Airlines crew asked her to remove her 2-year-old son's ventilator, which was keeping him ...

Image via GoFundMe A mother is speaking out against United Airlines after describing a horrible experience before take off. She claims that the crew on the flight tried to force her to remove her ...

Melissa Sotomayor, a Phillipsburg resident, was flying United Airlines from Tampa to Newark on Saturday, March 8 with her ...

She began the video explaining her son’s condition: “My son is dependent upon a trach, short for tracheostomy, and ventilator. He has vision and hearing problems.” Sotomayor and her baby ...

Melissa Sotomayor recounted how a United Airlines flight crew asked that she remove her son's ventilator, which he depends on for survival, before takeoff.

The crew asked Melissa Sotomayor to put medical equipment ‘keeping her son alive’ underneath the seat before takeoff ...

Sotomayor said her son, who is "medically complex," depends on a ventilator and a tracheostomy tube. The 2-year-old was born premature, at 22 weeks’ gestation, she said. Sotomayor said that ...

tried to make her detach her 21-month-old son’s ventilator and a tracheostomy tube, which he depends on, and stow the devices so the plane could take off. "This message is for United Airlines ...

Ms Sotomayor explained that her one-year-old son is “medically complex” and depends on a ventilator and a tracheostomy tube. Her son was born prematurely at 22 weeks. Before she boarded the ...