canceled.2021.1 (01-26-2014)
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http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/12/...-delta-flight/
"A marine who lost both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan was “humiliated” while boarding a Delta Airlines flight, as he was clumsily pushed to the back of the plane in a wheelchair, knocking into row after row of seated passengers.
Tears streamed down the face of Marine Lance Cpl. Christian Brown last Sunday when the war hero with prosthetic legs bumped into multiple passengers despite the best rebuffed efforts from several veterans on board to move Brown to first class."
"Retired Army Lt. Col. Keith Gafford, who was also on the flight, told the Post that two first-class passengers offered to switch seats with Brown before takeoff. This request, Gafford said, was rejected by the flight attendant. Gafford described the crew as being as “hard as woodpecker lips.”
“I have been flying with Delta for a gazillion years and this crew treated Chris worse than you’d treat any thing, not even any body,” Gafford told the Post. “I did 27 years in the military. I have seen a lot of things and have seen a lot of guys die, but I have never seen a Marine cry. What the kid said was, ‘I have given everything that I can give and this is the way I am being treated? This is how I will be treated for the rest of my life?’”"
I don't have the words to describe how disgusting this is.
canceled.2021.1 (01-26-2014)
Callinectes (01-26-2014)
Should the federal government force Delta to "remedy" this?
Terrible and embarrassing; what we do know that airplanes are not designed to handle wheelchairs and the handicapped, it's the nature of the beast.
But what I do NOT buy is the claim that the flight attendants would not permit a first class passenger to exchange their seat and it might be that the doors had already closed by the time someone had offered up their seat.
I would have been furious had I been watching the event play out as described. Why the passengers sat like sheep as this embarrassing episode unfolded is also a statement of our society and personal views.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
The question was aimed at Big Money.
The purpose of this story is so that more people will know about what happened. If more people know, and more contact Delta, then it is more likely that something will happen and changes will be made in the way handicapped passengers are handled.
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