The Alaska Airlines pilot returned to the gate at Sea-Tac Airport on Saturday and asked the boy and his father to get off.
Alaska Airlines says it was a matter of safety and the pilot would rather deal with it on the ground than in mid-flight.
"He was cranky. He was trying to get out. The seat belt was on him, but he was trying to get out and I was holding him down," his father Mark Yanchuck told.
Daniel's mother, Svetlana Yanchuck, said the incident was extremely embarrassing and she felt as though her family was treated like criminals.
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