Crying baby gets Canadian singer kicked off flight

Ottawa: A Canadian singer-songwriter was kicked off a United Airlines flight in San Francisco because her two-year-old toddler would not stop crying, triggering outrage from her supporters.

"Just got kicked off a @united flight because my son was crying really loud," Sarah Blackwood from the band Walk Off the Earth wrote yesterday on Twitter, accusing the airline of hating mothers. "Apparently my little two-year-old crying son was a big threat." Blackwood, who is also seven months pregnant with another child, was booked to fly late yesterday from San Francisco to Vancouver with her son Giorgio. The flight was operated by SkyWest Airlines, which said the crew ordered the plane back to the gate over "safety concerns." "Despite numerous requests, the child was not seated, as required by federal regulation to ensure passenger safety, and was repeatedly in the aisle of the aircraft before departure and during taxi," the airline said in a statement defending its decision.