Listen to Story A BBC weather presenter, her husband and their two daughters were asked to deboard from a Turkey-bound plane after she told her fellow passengers not to eat peanuts because one of her daughters was allergic to peanuts. The incident occurred on May 21 as the family was travelling from London Gatwick Airport to Dalaman in Turkey. According to Georgie Palmer, she informed the crew about her younger 12-year-old daughter Rosie's "anaphylactic allergy to peanuts" to the crew onboard the SunExpress flight, the Daily Mail reported.
But when the crew refused to make an announcement to ask the passengers not to consume peanuts, saying that their allergies' policy had been "updated", Palmer took it upon herself to inform her fellow travellers about the issue. She said she spoke to the passengers and they "happily agreed to pass on the message". However, the captain was enraged and asked the family to deboard before the flight took off.
"How we were treated was disgusting. The captain decided, because of my daughter's allergy he didn't want to fly with her on board. When he found out I had spoken to the other passengers, he was screaming at me from the cockpit.
He was so angry, the next thing I knew we were told to get off the plane," the Daily Mail quoted Palmer as saying. "It is really beautiful how every passenger on that plane was so wonderful, but nobody working on that plane showed one ounce of compassion. We have spent the last 12 years trying to teach people about.
