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NJ tot’s family mad that JetBlue still hasn’t apologized over ‘terror’ snafu

ANGER: Despite Post coverage, the family of 2-year-old Riyanna has yet to get an apology from JetBlue, which booted them when the tot showed up on a no-fly list.

It’s all JetBlue’s fault.

The airline that inexplicably yanked a cherub-cheeked Jersey girl off one of its flights had no basis to do so because children under 2 years old do not appear on the FBI’s no-fly terror list, sources said yesterday.

Airlines aren’t even required to check the names of children that young against the roster of al Qaeda thugs and other dangerous fliers, sources added.

There was no justification for JetBlue workers in Fort Lauderdale to pull the humiliated New Jersey Muslim family off the plane.

“At that age, the only bomb you can drop is in your diaper,” family spokesman Rick Abbott said yesterday.

It was a mystery why a JetBlue employee even bothered to check 18-month-old Riyanna’s name against the no-fly list.

JetBlue spokesman Sebastian White blamed the snafu on a “mistakenly triggered alert,” and said the airline is still investigating.

A Transportation Security Administration official said the agency was also looking into the incident.

In the meantime, Riyanna and her family — whose full names have not been made public — were making their way home to New Jersey yesterday, three days after the incident.

“This family hasn’t even gotten an apology. Nothing. JetBlue didn’t even call to say they’re looking into it,” Abbott said.

“JetBlue issued an apology to the media, but what kind of apology is that?

“The issue is, how the hell did this happen? How did it happen and why? Is the system really that easily manipulated? It’s crazy.”

Riyanna and her family were already aboard a JetBlue plane in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday when a JetBlue employee asked them to get off.

“It’s not you or your husband. It’s your daughter. She was flagged on the no-fly list,” an airline employee told Riyanna’s mom.

Back in the terminal, the family was accosted by nearly a dozen airport workers, including TSA agents and Broward County, Fla. Sheriff’s Officers. Riyanna’s parents said they were humiliated.