An unruly child put an end Tuesday evening to a plane trip by a family flying from Long Beach, Calif., to Vancouver, B.C., authorities said.
A young child refused to stay seated during an Alaska Airlines flight, according to Port of Portland spokesman Steve Johnson, and neither the parents nor flight attendants were able to control the child.
The pilot radioed ahead to have police waiting at the gate in Portland to remove the family of four from the plane.
Officers spoke with the family but did not arrest or cite them. They were not allowed to get back on the flight to Vancouver. Johnson said the stop in Portland was a scheduled stop for the flight.
He was unsure of the exact age of the child.
In February, a family of four was removed from a JetBlue flight after one of the children refused to remain seated before takeoff. Dr. Colette Vieau and her husband, Dr. Mordecai Stolk, told TODAY that they believe the decision by the airline was excessive.
This story originally appeared on Eugene, Ore., NBC-affiliate KMTR.
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