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Title: Airline Thugs drag passenger off of overbooked flight
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Tampa Bay Times
URL Source: http://www.placead.tampabay.com/new ... ked-united-flight-3411/2319768
Published: Apr 10, 2017
Author: Times staff
Post Date: 2017-04-10 12:09:32 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 3415
Comments: 25
Videos posted to Facebook and Twitter show a passenger on United Airlines Flight 3411 being dragged from the plane before takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Audra D. Bridges posted one video to Facebook at 7:30 p.m. Sunday that appears to show three officers speaking with the man seconds before grabbing him and pulling his from his seat. The man screams as he is dragged down the aisle of the plane that was scheduled to fly to Louisville, Ky. The Courier-Journal reported that a United spokesperson confirmed in an email Sunday night that a passenger had been taken off a flight in Chicago. "Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked," the spokesperson said. "After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. "We apologize for the overbook situation. Further details on the removed customer should be directed to authorities." On Monday, another United spokesman, Charlie Hobart, said airline employees named four customers who had to leave the plane and that three of them did so. He said law enforcement was called when the fourth person refused to get off the plane. "We followed the right procedures," Hobart told the Associated Press in a phone interview. "That plane had to depart. We wanted to get our customers to their destinations, and when one gentleman refused to get off the aircraft, we had to call the Chicago Police Department." Poster Comment:
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
DON'T TRAVEL UNITED!
Some newer coverage, including the bloody face of 69yo doctor: BGR: ‘Just kill me,’ United passenger says as he drools blood in new video One of the cops has been suspended, apparently for roughness. I'll try to embed the pic here at LF, otherwise visit the link. Ka-ching! A very profitable trip for the doctor.
The situation was mishandled in every respect by the airline personnel and the cops. The passenger should have never been mistreated by dragging him off the aircraft. However, the passenger is either a friggin’ nutcase, acting so “Deckardish” like….or he knew exactly what he was doing all the time while mentally counting the mega bucks coming his way after the lawsuit. I go for the latter … Well … Maybe he was just being “Deckardish.” WTH - Who knows …
AceOfSpades: When you say "I'm sorry" and "no one should be mistreated this way," I think you've decided that the settlement is inevitable, and will cost less than the bad PR. Update: United's public stock "plunges" in wake of passenger being dragged off plane. Meanwhile, the Courier-Journal got a hold of the dragged-off passenger's name and discovered a "troubled past." Dao was trying to regain his medical license when he worked at the practice from August 2015 to August 2016, Nadeau said. Dao had surrendered his medical license in February 2005 after being convicted of drug-related offenses, according to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure last June. Broadcast and print coverage of Dao's arrest, conviction and sentencing made his name familiar to Kentuckians. ... Dao, who went to medical school in Vietnam in the 1970s before moving to the U.S., has worked as a pulmonologist in Elizabethtown but was arrested in 2003 and eventually convicted of drug-related offenses after an undercover investigation, according to the documents filed with the state board of medical licensure. The licensure board documents allege that he was involved in fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances and was sexually involved with a patient who used to work for his practice and assisted police in building a case against him. Dao was convicted of multiple felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud and deceit in November 2004 and was placed on five years of supervised probation in January 2005, according to the documents. He surrendered his medical license the next month. The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure permitted Dao to resume practicing medicine in 2015 under certain conditions.
What does a felony record or a troubled past have to do with the present situation? This sounds illogical and subjective reasoning. He is not on a "No Fly List" otherwise if he was he would never have been allowed to board. And yes, United Airlines has admitted their actions were deemed unacceptable in that no passenger should ever be treated like this. They admit wrongdoing in this and are willing to make amends with this passenger.
Legally? Probably nothing. It's unlikely a judge will let them bring it up in court.
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#12. To: HomerBohn (#1)
#13. To: nativist nationalist, jeremiad, Willie Green, Gatlin, Goldilucky, Fred Mertz, HomerBohn (#12)
A new video shows a moment that happened about ten minutes after the initial removal, according to witnesses. The passenger came running back onto the flight, went to the rear of the aircraft, and clutched a post, mumbling “just kill me” and “I want to go home” repeatedly. 
#14. To: Tooconservative (#13)
#17. To: Gatlin, goldilucky, HomerBohn (#14)
United CEO: "I'm Sorry"
But, Meanwhile, Newspaper Runs Story Dredging Up Dragged Passenger's Past—Ace
Well, well, well. A crooked doctor who got a bloody mouth. Interesting to see how slowly any real facts dribble out in this story. That's because professionalism in news reporting seems to be at an all-time low.
#19. To: Tooconservative (#17)
#20. To: goldilucky (#19)
What does a felony record or a troubled past have to do with the present situation?
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