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Woman says she was taken off plane for complaining about vomit

She says someone got barf on her daughter. The airline says she was disruptive.
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Frontier Airlines plane taxis the runway at Cleveland Hopkins Airport on October 15, 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio. Recently diagnosed Ebola patient, health care worker Amber Vinson, traveled on Frontier Airlines from Dallas to Cleveland with a low fever on October 10, and returned to Dallas on October 13.

DURHAM, N.C. — A North Carolina woman says she was taken off an airplane and handcuffed after complaining about vomit on a seat.

Rosetta Swinney tells WTVD she was boarding to return from Nevada last weekend when her 14-year-old daughter got someone's vomit on her shirt and hands.

The Durham resident said she was taken to jail after verbal exchanges with a flight attendant who said it wasn't her job to clean up.

Frontier Airlines says it offered to have a crew clean the vomit, but Swinney became disruptive. An airline statement says police were called after Swinney refused to deplane and take a different flight.

It wasn't clear whether Swinney was charged. Las Vegas police spokeswoman Officer Alejandra Zambrano says the situation is under investigation, declining further comment.

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