'Biohazard': Why 'humiliated' mum was placed on no-fly list

A mum says she was "humiliated" during a flight on Monday (local time) when a flight attendant reportedly yelled at her over her daughter’s dirty nappy.

Farah Naz Khan, 34, said the incident occurred as she travelled with her husband and toddler on a Mesa Airlines flight from Montana to Houston, Texas, NBC reported.

Halfway through the journey, Ms Khan said she changed her daughter’s nappy at a changing table in the back of the plane and disposed of it in a scented bag in the bin.

But as she made her way back to her seat, the mum said a male flight attendant stormed up to her and began yelling.

"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'."

Ms Khan said the flight attendant told her he wanted her to retrieve the nappy from the bin, an act she says left her feeling "humiliated" and "belittled".

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When she asked another flight attendant for a garbage bag to put the nappy in, that staffer told her she hadn't done anything wrong, NBC reports.

The 34-year-old said she made a formal complaint after landing but later received a phone call from the same confrontational flight attendant.

"I recognised the voice. He said, 'Due to a biohazard incident on the plane today, we've placed you on the no-fly list.'

"This made me very angry, because I suffered the humiliating experience...they are placing me on a no-fly list?" Khan told the publication.

"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."

A spokesperson for Mesa Airlines told NBC Ms Khan’s claims "do not meet the high standards that Mesa sets for our flight attendants and we are reviewing the matter."

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