New York
CNN
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United Airlines is apologizing to a mother who says a flight crew asked her to remove her son from his breathing machine before they could take off.
“The way you treated my son when we were attempting to fly home from Tampa to Newark was absolutely ridiculous,” Melissa Sotomayor said in a nearly 10-minute TikTok video that has gained more than 1.3 million views.
Her nearly two-year-old son, Noah, is “medically complex” and relies on a breathing tube, ventilator and other devices, she posted.
“Once we got seated, a male flight attendant approached me and stated I needed to take my son off of the ventilator and the portable…
