Skip to main content Currently Reading Texas parents indicted on 36 charges in child abuse case sue over baby's death on United flight Gabrielle Banks, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 A United Airlines is towed to a gate at Bush Intercontinental Airport.Bill Montgomery / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 A United Airlines Boeing 737 takes off from Bush Intercontinental Airport.Bill Montgomery / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less A Houston-area couple is suing United Airlines, saying one of their infant twins died en route to meeting her grandparents in 2019 because the airline refused to let the family buckle the babies into car seats for the 11-hour flight to Japan. The same couple has been charged in a gruesome child abuse case in New Hampshire alleging the man intentionally immersed the hand of his 3-year-old stepdaughter in boiling water.