United Airlines Dragged an Asian American Down Aisle

[Dragon4]

He should sue the airline for a hefty sum, not only on behalf of himself but on behalf of his patients too.

 

[jhungary]

He can not only sue for breach of contract and assault, but also punitive damages from the unfair and unlawful process of ejection, as well as outrageous and serious bodily harm he suffered.

Expelling a passenger voluntary and involuntary is allowed and enforced by FAA Rules he cannot sue the airline for ejecting him, unless the airline eject him based on his race, gender, ages or sexual preferences.

 

[xunzi]

Man I can see other airliners hitting a jackpot with PR gold if they publicly denounce this practice of assault on customer. United is in big trouble!

As I said, he can sue the Local Authority for assault, that's depending on two things.

1.) Would you be able to sue local authority when they have public indemnity
2.) Was the altercation warranted.

You and I were both not in the flight, or fight, we don't know if the heavy hand is needed, all we know is that he is a doctor, he don't want to give up his seat, the police was called, and the police drag him off the flight.

WE don't have a full picture of the incident, so everything we can claim is a hearsay, which I am not in a mood to dip into this "Guessing" business.

Thabo Sefolosha, an NBA player, just got reward $4mil from the NY police department recently when he was wrongfully injured in his arrest case. There is a precedent.

 

[frequency]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/11/news/united-passenger-pr-disaster/index.html

Apparently, this is trending in China. A lot of people are angry at this incident.

Last month, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz was named U.S. Communicator of the Year by the magazine PRWeek.
Now he's being raked over the coals for his response to a violent passenger incident on a United Airlines flight.

Public relations experts say the CEO should have quickly offered an unreserved apology after a customer was filmed on Sunday being forcibly removed from his seat and dragged down an overbooked aircraft's aisle.

Instead, Munoz apologized only for "having to re-accommodate ... customers."

Many customers found the response to be overly callous -- and said so on social media, where video of the incident had gone viral.


But Munoz doubled down in a letter sent to United employees on Monday afternoon, describing the passenger as "disruptive and belligerent." He also said that "employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this."

 

[grey boy 2]

You're late, its been posted
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/asian-man-violently-removed-from-overbooked-flight.488762/

 

[patero]

It has been reported in the US media (may need to be verified) that the passenger in question is Dr David Dao, a Vietnamese born American. The thread title may need to be changed if verified.

 

[terranMarine]

 

[Mo12]

Btw I was thinking, what would be the best way to get a person off the plane, when you have accidentally let more people on it?

Everyone rejected $800 compensation.

This is theoretical point, not trying to relate to that incident.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Btw I was thinking, what would be the best way to get a person off the plane, when you have accidentally let more people on it?

Offer more money.

I mean vouchers for your airline preferably in counts of $50 vouchers that can only be used 1 at a time and set to expire in 1 year.

 

[Mamluk]

Btw I was thinking, what would be the best way to get a person off the plane, when you have accidentally let more people on it?

Everyone rejected $800 compensation.

This is theoretical point, not trying to relate to that incident.

The best way? Not to let everyone in if it's overbooked!

 

[Mamluk]

Offer more money.

NO. Just don't let extra passengers board. Easier than dragging people out!

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

NO. Just don't let extra passengers board. Easier than dragging people out!

More passengers didn't board. Passenger being used in reference to a paying customer.

The 4 seats required were for United employees who decided to take the last plane out.

 

[Mo12]

We are assuming if it was an accident, by letting extra people on the plane.

But what if people even reject $1k. What else can be done? Will be lucky for the airline to give 10k say

 

[Mamluk]

More passengers didn't board. Passenger being used in reference to a paying customer.

The 4 seats required were for United employees who decided to take the last plane out.

That's essentially letting extra passengers board, unless it was like a last minute decision by United.

 

[terranMarine]

Btw I was thinking, what would be the best way to get a person off the plane, when you have accidentally let more people on it?

Everyone rejected $800 compensation.

This is theoretical point, not trying to relate to that incident.

Lets not discuss about financial compensation first. The United Airlines made some serious mistakes here.
If the Airline overbooked, shouldn't the passengers be notified at the waiting area? Once all passengers aboard the plane, buckled up ready to fly all of a sudden that sh!t happens? I read that 4 "randomly" picked happened to be minorities (probably all Asians, not confirmed though). Anyway even the White House spokesman Sean Spicer is calling the incident TROUBLING. The CEO first stood behind the staff but after receiving wide spread criticism online he backed away and apologized to the improper treatment to that Asian man. You see unlike some certain mexican who said that man was at fault the majority of the people are slamming the aggressive removal.