The flight attendant called Farah Naz Khan hours after the flight landed Friday, she said. "I'm legitimately worried about this person," Khan said.
By Antonio Planas
(NBC NEWS) A Seattle woman said a flight attendant humiliated her mid-flight for trying to dispose of her daughter’s dirty diaper in a bathroom garbage bin and later told her that she had been placed on a no-fly list for creating a biohazard.
Farah Naz Khan, a 34-year-old endocrinologist, said Monday that she was traveling on a Mesa Airlines flight from Kalispell, Montana, to Houston on Friday with her husband and their daughter, who is younger than 2.
About midway through the flight, she and her daughter went to a diaper changing station in the rear of the airplane and disposed of a soiled diaper in a scented bag. While she was headed back to her seat, a male flight attendant confronted her, Khan said.
“When I walked back to the front holding my diaper wipes container and, like, the pad that we used to change my daughter’s diaper on, the flight attendant accosted me and said: ‘Did you just dispose of a diaper back there? That’s a biohazard.'”
Khan said the flight attendant didn’t let her explain — he only yelled. Khan said that she then asked him whether he wanted her to retrieve the used diaper and that he said yes.
Fishing through a garbage bin for the diaper made her feel “humiliated” and “belittled,” Khan said. She then became angry when she asked another flight attendant for a garbage bag to put the diaper in and he told her she hadn’t done anything wrong.
