[Niamh.]

**There's a video in the link**

This is the shocking moment a man claiming to be a doctor was violently dragged out of his seat aboard a plane.

The video, recorded by a fellow passenger, was taken on a United Airlines flight.

Airport security ejected the man after he refused to leave the overbooked flight because he was 'trying to get to work'.

Allegedly, the man was removed from the flight to make space for an employee.



Audra Bridges, who witnessed the incident, wrote on Facebook: "Please share this video. We are on this flight. United airlines overbooked the flight. They randomly selected people to kick off so their standby crew could have a seat.

"This man is a doctor and has to be at the hospital in the morning. He did not want to get off. We are all shaky and so disgusted. #unitedairways"

A Reddit user by the name of eman00619 explained that passengers were told at the gate the flight was overbooked and United Airlines were on the hunt for someone to to take another flight to Louisville on Monday.

The offer included $400 and a hotel stay.

"Passengers were allowed to board the flight, Bridges said, and once the flight was filled those on the plane were told that four people needed to give up their seats to stand-by United employees that needed to be in Louisville on Monday for a flight," the user revealed.

"Passengers were told that the flight would not take off until the United crew had seats, Bridges said, and the offer was increased to $800, but no one volunteered."

A manager reportedly then came aboard the plane and used a computer to select four people to be taken off the flight. A couple were selected first and quickly left. The doctor in the video was then confronted.

United Airlines said in a statement: "After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate."

One critic on Twitter wrote: "That's some terrible PR, @UnitedAirlines. How about not dragging people off planes so that employees can take the seat?"

"UnitedAirlines Shame on you. Thank goodness this was caught on video," another said.
Another video was also released from the notorious flight showing the highly distressed man at the back of the plane, gripping curtain repeating "I have to go home," and "just kill me."

"Are you ****ing kidding me?" a man is heard saying as he films the shaken man.

The identity of the man or details of how he ended up in the state seen in the clips are not currently known.

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[Kizzy]

I saw this last night, this is going to cost them BIG!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I saw this last night, this is going to cost them BIG!

I never heard anything like it, letting everyone board the plane and then randomly selecting 4 to get back off again? It's like the Hunger Games

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I never heard anything like it, letting everyone board the plane and then randomly selecting 4 to get back off again? It's like the Hunger Games

I don't think it's quite like The Hunger Games

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

I don't think it's quite like The Hunger Games

They made him kill the other 3 passengers after they took him off the plane though

[lewis111]

Apparently the CEO is blaming the passenger for being disruptive

This whole story is awful and I'm pretty sure it's not the first controversy involing United this year

[Northern Monkey]

I think they have a very strange idea of what the word "volunteer" means.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

I think they have a very strange idea of what the word "volunteer" means.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Did you watch Hunger Games last night?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Did you watch Hunger Games last night?

No

[Cherie]

I can't imagine sitting on any type of public transport and being dragged off in this way, there was another story about refusing to let a teenager in leggings on board as it was against their dress code..they seem to have some very strange policies.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I can't imagine sitting on any type of public transport and being dragged off in this way, there was another story about refusing to let a teenager in leggings on board as it was against their dress code..they seem to have some very strange policies.

Whaaaat? That is very odd. I never heard of an airline having a dress code for their passengers

[Cherie]

United Airlines has refused to allow two teenage girls and a 10-year-old girl to board a flight Sunday because they were wearing leggings.
The gate agent told the girls they had to put dresses over their leggings otherwise they could not board the flight. The 10-year-old was eventually allowed to board after putting on a dress she was carrying in her backpack, however, the other two teens were barred from taking the flight from Denver to Minneapolis.
Social media platforms were inundated with criticism after a passenger posted about the incident on Twitter. "A United gate agent isn't letting girls in leggings get on flight from Denver to Minneapolis because spandex is not allowed?" Shannon Watts, who was at a gate at Denver International Airport, said in her tweet.
"She's forcing them to change or put dresses on over leggings or they can't board," she tweeted. "Since when does @united police women's clothing?"
United responded to tweets about the incident, saying, "United shall have the right to refuse passengers who are not properly clothed via our Contract of Carriage." They added, "This is left to the discretion of the agents."
According to the airline's passenger contract, the airline can refuse to let a passenger on board if the passengers is "barefoot or not properly clothed" without defining "properly clothed."
United's response gaenwews more outrage on social media as users blamed the airline of sexism and sexualizing young girls after it had defended the dress code.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

United Airlines has refused to allow two teenage girls and a 10-year-old girl to board a flight Sunday because they were wearing leggings.
The gate agent told the girls they had to put dresses over their leggings otherwise they could not board the flight. The 10-year-old was eventually allowed to board after putting on a dress she was carrying in her backpack, however, the other two teens were barred from taking the flight from Denver to Minneapolis.
Social media platforms were inundated with criticism after a passenger posted about the incident on Twitter. "A United gate agent isn't letting girls in leggings get on flight from Denver to Minneapolis because spandex is not allowed?" Shannon Watts, who was at a gate at Denver International Airport, said in her tweet.
"She's forcing them to change or put dresses on over leggings or they can't board," she tweeted. "Since when does @united police women's clothing?"
United responded to tweets about the incident, saying, "United shall have the right to refuse passengers who are not properly clothed via our Contract of Carriage." They added, "This is left to the discretion of the agents."
According to the airline's passenger contract, the airline can refuse to let a passenger on board if the passengers is "barefoot or not properly clothed" without defining "properly clothed."
United's response gaenwews more outrage on social media as users blamed the airline of sexism and sexualizing young girls after it had defended the dress code.

That is disgusting

[reece(:]

How do they think they can get away with this?!

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Cherie

United Airlines has refused to allow two teenage girls and a 10-year-old girl to board a flight Sunday because they were wearing leggings.
The gate agent told the girls they had to put dresses over their leggings otherwise they could not board the flight. The 10-year-old was eventually allowed to board after putting on a dress she was carrying in her backpack, however, the other two teens were barred from taking the flight from Denver to Minneapolis.
Social media platforms were inundated with criticism after a passenger posted about the incident on Twitter. "A United gate agent isn't letting girls in leggings get on flight from Denver to Minneapolis because spandex is not allowed?" Shannon Watts, who was at a gate at Denver International Airport, said in her tweet.
"She's forcing them to change or put dresses on over leggings or they can't board," she tweeted. "Since when does @united police women's clothing?"
United responded to tweets about the incident, saying, "United shall have the right to refuse passengers who are not properly clothed via our Contract of Carriage." They added, "This is left to the discretion of the agents."
According to the airline's passenger contract, the airline can refuse to let a passenger on board if the passengers is "barefoot or not properly clothed" without defining "properly clothed."
United's response gaenwews more outrage on social media as users blamed the airline of sexism and sexualizing young girls after it had defended the dress code.

That's insane

[smudgie]

Absolute shambles.
The poor doctor was then seen running back on the plane, had they let him go?
The security staff are now suspended( yeah).
People need to respond by showing they will not be treated like cattle, find another airline for a week or so, give these morons a wide berth. Hit them where it hurts.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by smudgie

Absolute shambles.
The poor doctor was then seen running back on the plane, had they let him go?
The security staff are now suspended( yeah).
People need to respond by showing they will not be treated like cattle, find another airline for a week or so, give these morons a wide berth. Hit them where it hurts.

So true, Smudgie.

[Amy Jade]

This is pretty disturbing! It's the airlines fault too for overselling tickets.

I do have to say though when I went to Los Angeles in 2015 we flew LAX to JFK with United and they were lovely with me and my friends our plane was pretty empty and we got moved up a class to comfort+ and the hostess gave us all biscuits and a drink which isn't normally offered on short journeys.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

This is pretty disturbing! It's the airlines fault too for overselling tickets.

I do have to say though when I went to Los Angeles in 2015 we flew LAX to JFK with United and they were lovely with me and my friends our plane was pretty empty and we got moved up a class to comfort+ and the hostess gave us all biscuits and a drink which isn't normally offered on short journeys.

I don't understand why airlines are allowed to over book flights though, they do it because most times some passengers don't turn up but they still get paid for the seat whether a passenger turns up our not so they're basically selling seats that belong to other people, that should be illegal imo

[Tom4784]

It's a disgraceful situation on many levels.

You can't force someone to 'voluntarily' get off a plane when they aren't a threat to anyone and if an airline in the US overbooks then they have to offer at least $1300 for people to vacate their seats plus I'm pretty sure an airline isn't allowed to make that offer once passengers have boarded the plane either

They could have done serious damage to the man, I hope he sues them for millions.

[RichardG]

mess

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by RichardG

mess

[Vanessa]

They aren't allowed to remove people who have paid for their seats. Hope the man sues them

[MrTheMan]

I really hope that the stupid twats that dragged that poor guy off the plane get sacked and burn in hell because they really deserve to.