Debbie Hartman and Trisha Baker were traveling from Sanford, Florida, to Asheville, North Carolina to visit their father, who was in hospice care. While the plane was waiting to leave, Baker said she received a text message that said her father only had hours to live.
"(My sister) said (to the flight attendant), 'You're being very rude. My father is dying, and I'm comforting her,' and they said she needed to keep her personal problems off the plane," Hartman said.
"{They told us we were a threat to the flight. I couldn't believe it," Hartman said. "People were like 'what's going on?'"
Some passengers even took to YouTube and complained about the situation.
For the sisters, they tried to take another flight the next day but it was too late.
"I got a call that he passed," Hartman said.
