Crying baby taken off plane by armed police after cabin crew declared her a ‘security threat’

A crying baby was thrown off a plane with her parents because she posed a security threat.

19-month-old Sarina Aziz became agitated when cabin crew insisted she sit on the lap of one of her parents as the Luton-bound plane prepared for take off from Tel Aviv.

After becoming restless due to long delays, her parents Ariella and Mark from north-London struggled to keep their daughter in the connector belt provided for under twos as the aircraft taxied to the runway leading staff to declare a “security incident”.

The pilot then turned back to the airport to allow armed counter-terrorism police to board the flight and remove the family, reported the Jewish News .

Speaking about the incident Ariella said: “It was like a terrorist incident. I couldn’t believe it.”

“The next thing you know were are all in squad cars heading back to Ben-Gurion (airport).”

Ariella slammed the Dutch airline Transavia for being “wildly unprofessional.”

“Everyone could see we were trying to calm Sarina down but we couldn’t do anything,” she said.

A spokeswoman for the company said Sarina was “misbehaving” and not following the rules by putting on her seatbelt.

She added: “We cannot take passengers on a flight if they do not follow the rules.”