A 68-year old Florida woman is suing Southwest Airlines for $10m after she was wrongly kicked off her flight over mask mandates.
According to the reports, the woman who was later identified as Medora Clai Reading was ejected from the flight after she refused to comply with the airline’s mask rules.
However, Reading claimed that she only removed her facemask to periodically drink water and was wrongly kicked off her flight on 7 January 2021 for violating the mask mandate.
Following the incident, Reading filed a case against the airline where she claimed that she needed to stay hydrated for medical reasons and that she has a heart condition and a low blood sugar, but a “hostile” flight attendant kept demanding that she keep her mask on.
Moreover, Reading also revealed that she offered to show her medical exemption card but was told, “We don’t care” and an unmasked pilot “laughed mockingly” at her as she was ordered off the flight.
The lawyer accused Southwest of “hostile and abusive” conduct and “Covid insanity”, claiming that “a planeload full of witnesses” saw the incident, with some videoing it.
As of now, the airlines refused to give a comment and said: “We have no immediate comment to offer on this now-pending litigation, as we make an initial review of the complaint.”
