Mom Complains About Vomit On Daughters’ Plane Seat Then She Was Arrested And Put Behind Bars

In 2021, a mother from North Carolina was charged and sent to jail after she said that her daughter’s airplane seat was covered in vomit. On Frontier Airlines, she got into a fight with one of the flight attendants. After the fight, Rosetta Swinney was picked up for a small crime.

Rosetta Swinney and her 14-year-old daughter boarded the Frontier Airlines for their flight from Las Vegas to Raleigh after attending a wedding. Passengers were told that their Frontier flight to Durham, N.C. was delayed because the staff needed to clean the aircraft.

However, as soon as they boarded, the young girl noticed something that really caught both their attention.

“She jumped up and said, ‘Mom, my hands are wet.’ She smelled it. She said, ‘This is vomit, mom.’ So, we went to look. It was on the bag, all over her shirt, her hands.”

So Rosetta asked a flight attendant for assistance. However, the flight attendant reportedly told Rosetta that it wasn’t her job to clean it up and got really offensive.

“If it wasn’t her job, why wasn’t it attended to?” she said.

She claims that when she tried to raise the issue again, the attendant ordered her to leave. The flight attendant contacted security to remove Rosetta and her daughter from the plane after she refused to leave. The flight crew alleged that Rosetta started to cause trouble and became ‘disruptive.’ Due to her actions, Rosetta was taken into custody after officers were sent to the airport to get her off the plane. She then spent 12 hours in jail for “trespassing.”

In an interview with Raleigh, N.C. news station WTVD-TV, Rosetta said, “What really hurt me is for my child to see me getting handcuffed and taken away from her. Twelve hours I was in jail. Twelve hours.”

Frontier refunded the cost of Rosetta’s flight. In a statement provided to Yahoo Lifestyle, Frontier Airlines stated that the flight attendant apologized to the mother and her daughter and “offered cleaning products for herself and invited to use the lavatory to wash up.”

The statement also said that “the mother and daughter were also told that once boarding was complete they would be provided other seats if available.”

In the statement, the airlines wrote:

“The flight attendants apologized and immediately invited the mother and her teenage daughter to move to either end of the plane so that the seat area could be cleaned. The mother and daughter were also told that once boarding was complete, they would be provided other seats if available. The daughter was also offered cleaning products and invited to use the lavatory to wash up. The mother was unsatisfied with the response and became disruptive.”

Rosetta did not agree with Frontier Airlines’ statement, saying that the attendant either attempted to clean the mess or offered them new seats. Other passengers who were on the same airplane as the mother and daughter also posted videos and their version of the incident on social media that corroborated Rosettas’ claims.

After she was released from jail, Rosetta purchased a $1,000 flight home with Delta Airlines. The mother has hired a civil rights attorney despite the fact that Frontier Airlines has reimbursed her for her first flight. Rosetta further said that she will never again use Frontier Airlines.