By Yaron Steinbuch
(NY POST) A Seattle doctor is raising a stink after she claimed she was harassed by a flight attendant for throwing out her baby’s dirty diaper in the toilet’s trash bin — and later placed on a no-fly list for creating a “biohazard.”
Dr. Farah Naz Khan, 34, said she was traveling on a Mesa Airlines flight from Kalispell, Montana, to Houston on Friday with her husband and their daughter, who is just shy of 2 years old, NBC News reported.
“I had to change baby’s poop diaper in the back bathroom and I disposed of it in a scented diaper disposal band inside the bathroom trash,” the endocrinologist wrote on Twitter.
“When I came to the front, the flight attendant berated me for throwing away a poop diaper on the plane. He said it was a ‘biohazard’ and that I should retrieve it if I can. So there I am, fishing her poop diaper out of the back bathroom,” Khan recounted.
“I asked the other flight attendant in the back if he could give me an extra garbage bag to put this in so I could keep it with me to throw away after the flight,” she continued.
“This flight attendant told me that throwing the diaper away in the bathroom is what we’re supposed to do, so when I confronted the initial flight attendant about this, he yelled at me again and said he didn’t want to deal with me,” Khan wrote.
Hours later, the mother said she then got a call from the flight attendant on a United Airlines 800 number, informing her she had been put on a no-fly list “because of a biohazard incident.”
“I recognized the voice. He said, ‘Due to a biohazard incident on the plane today, we’ve placed you on the no-fly list.’ This made me very angry because I suffered the humiliating experience. … They are placing me on a no-fly list?” Khan told NBC News.
