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Old 11-04-2017, 04:27 PM #26
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They should do it at the gate
before they go on.

Left it to late
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They should do it at the gate
before they go on.
They shouldn't do it at all.
They should have just let the guy board the damn plane peacefully without stressing him out and traumatising him.

If that was me I would have chinned them security *****!!! Overbooked or underbooked, he should have stayed on that plane!!!
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According to the BBC when the captain ordered people off to accommodate four members of staff who needed to travel, this person was required to be removed.

It is not yet proved that he is a doctor, that could have been a lie by him to try and stay on the flight.

By refusing to leave he was therefore belligerent and disruptive and in violation of the law. United Airlines are well within their rights according to this story on the BBC website, to have this man prosecuted, and I suspect banned for life from UA flights. If they take this action and make an example of this man then such incidents will never happen again as people will know what happen to them in the courts if the do not do what they are told and leave when told to do so!!!

I hear now the CEO is offering some apology

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They should do it at the gate
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Left it to late
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That is what a number of experts say, they should have done it at the gate, the problem was that these four staff presented themselves late, and they take priority of fare paying passengers. The staff were needed at the other airports and strict FAA rules regarding working hours meant they could not drive the distance
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Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself - and he needed anger management, was 'not forthright' and had control issues, psychiatrist found

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Would people care so much if he weren't a doctor? Or if he didn't kick up a storm? What about the couple who were kicked off before him and left without a peep? Will they get millions in settlement too?
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What about the couple who were kicked off before him and left without a peep? Will they get millions in settlement too?
Probably not.. for this reason

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If they needed four seats why not just stop the last four passengers from boarding? Those four would be pretty disgruntled admittedly, but better than being hauled off a plane you are already in.
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If they needed four seats why not just stop the last four passengers from boarding? Those four would be pretty disgruntled admittedly, but better than being hauled off a plane you are already in.
That's what they're supposed to do
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Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself - and he needed anger management, was 'not forthright' and had control issues, psychiatrist found

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Would people care so much if he weren't a doctor? Or if he didn't kick up a storm? What about the couple who were kicked off before him and left without a peep? Will they get millions in settlement too?
It doesn't matter whether he's a Doctor or not imo
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"David Dao, a 69-year-old doctor from Kentucky..."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7679426.html

He paid for the seat he was sitting in. No way should he have been dragged off by a group of thugs.... which is how they acted.
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"David Dao, a 69-year-old doctor from Kentucky..."
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He paid for the seat he was sitting in. No way should he have been dragged off by a group of thugs.... which is how they acted.
Exactly and whether he's a Doctor or not should have no bearing on the matter either but clearly there's a smear campaign going on to try to discredit him now
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Doctor or not he has somewhere to be the following day, needing to accommodate 4 staff in a different location seems to me like poor planning on Uniteds behalf, when he refused to get off it should have been offered up again to the plane, often on reflection people might have a change of heart and decide they didn't mind going on a later flight, the staff who needed to travel turned up late, they need to address this issue as well

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Apparently this story is about a different person, so as well as being hauled off a plane his good name has now been thrashed due to poor journalism
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surely these thug cops should be charged with assault
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Watching the clips of this over recent days just defy belief. How dare the airline and the police treat a paying passenger in this way. I hope he sues huge.
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How did they think this was going to be received?...
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Apparently this story is about a different person, so as well as being hauled off a plane his good name has now been thrashed due to poor journalism
Can you cite your source please that this was another person?
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Lawsuit has been filed

http://heavy.com/news/2017/04/david-...ssenger-suing/
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Can you cite your source please that this was another person?
I could yesterday today it changed again, even if he does have convictions he is not an escaped prisoner so it has no bearing on the actions of the security guards
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Exactly, does he suddenly have less rights because of it? Of course not
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altho the judgemental/jealous side of me is a little sad now that the one person on that flight who became a millionaire was the criminal lol

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