A mum was told that she was placed on a no-fly list for putting her daughter's dirty nappy in the bin mid-flight.
Farah Naz Khan, 34, said she was "humiliated" by a flight attendant during her Mesa Airlines flight from Kalispell, Montana to Houston, Texas, in the US, on Friday.
She said she felt "belittled" by that same flight attendant when she tried to dispose of a dirty nappy in the toilet rubbish bin and he told her to fish it out herself, she has claimed.
The endocrinologist was travelling with her husband and daughter, who is under the age of two, when she used the nappy changing station in the rear of the plane.
She had thrown the soiled nappy away in a scented bag before heading back to her seat.
As Farah made her way down the aisle she says a male flight attendant then confronted her.
She told NBC : "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.'
She said the flight attendant would not let her explain the situation, and when she asked if he wanted her to get the dirty nappy from the bin he said yes.
Farah said going through the bin for the dirty nappy made her feel "humiliated" and "belittled".
She ended up holding onto the nappy and disposing of it in a bin after leaving the flight.
When she asked a different flight attendant for another bag for the nappy, they had told her she had not done anything wrong.
Farah also says she has flown with her daughter before and changing and disposing of her nappy mid-flight has never been a problem.
Farah, who is from Seattle, Washington, filed a customer service complaint as soon as she landed.
A few hours later, Farah said she got a phone call from an unidentified number, and when she answered she said she immediately recognised the voice on the other line as the male flight attendant.
She said: "He said, 'Due to a biohazard incident on the plane today, we've placed you on the no-fly list.'"
She was furious at how she was treated.
Farah added: "I also didn't dispose of the diaper on the plane, even if it was considered a biohazard. I walked it off the plane and threw it away myself outside the flight."
Farah says she has not received an apology from the airline directly and has no idea how the flight attendant got her number.
A Mesa spokesperson said in a statement to NBC: "The details as described by our customer do not meet the high standards that Mesa sets for our flight attendants and we are reviewing the matter."
