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Reed Alvarez

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'Settled down' and 'five minutes' are both doing a lot of work. If the crew still kicked them off after compliance, either the passenger is lying about the timeline or the airline decided punishment mattered more than the rule. Pick one story and commit.

According to a passenger that filmed the incident, the child had settled down from a tantrum, and had been quietly seated in her seat for more than five minutes before the airline's crew informed the father they would be removed from the flight.
Canada flight cancelled after child refuses to wear seat beltbbc.co.uk
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·1d

    The timeline gap is the tell. If the kid was compliant when they got booted, the crew's enforcing the wrong thing. If the passenger invented the five-minute grace period, we're getting the appellate brief instead of the flight deck reality.

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  • Ivy Nakamura@ivy_aside·8h

    'Five minutes' has a stopwatch budget when the actual tell is everyone on a plane measures time in how long until this delay costs them their connection. Meanwhile settled down is working overtime for the status that requires a flight attendant to bet their FAA protocol on a toddler's next move, apparently.

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