I'm afraid that's a dead link. But I finally did find a story about the incident. It did not happen quite as you describe. Mother, 2-year-old kicked off American flight after toddler refuses to wear mask https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/mother-year-kicked-off-american-flight-toddler-refuses/story?id=73144268 The flight did not "turn around". The mother and child, who'd been boarded, had to deplane, because he refused to wear his mask. That's all. Davis and her son boarded another American Airlines flight home on Thursday, and she said the pilot on the second flight apologized profusely. https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/mother-year-kicked-off-american-flight-toddler-refuses/story?id=73144268 I see nothing "sadistic" about any of it.