Posted on 03/14/2018 6:58:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A mother and daughter whose puppy died while flying United are alleging that a flight attendant knowingly forced the animal into an overhead bin.
And now Catalina Robledo and her young daughter, Sophia Ceballos, are saying the flight attendant responsible is lying about the encounter that killed their 10-month-old French bulldog, Kokito.
"It makes me feel sad -- I just really miss him," Sophia, 11, said Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. "He was a member of our family. He was like my brother to me."
"He was special," she added, holding back tears. "He was really smart and really sweet too."
The family is alleging that the United employee knew there was a dog in the bag when asked to place it in the overhead bin.
"The flight attendant came, and she was like, 'You have to put him up there because it's going to block the path,'" said Sophia, speaking on behalf of her mother, who isn't fluent in English. "And we were like, 'It's a dog, it's a dog." And she said, 'It doesn't matter, you still have to put it up there.'"
A passenger on the flight told ABC News that the flight attendant didn't know there was a dog in the bag when she insisted on moving it to the overhead compartment. Upon hearing that there was a dog in the bag after the flight landed the flight attendant "seemed frazzled and shocked," the passenger said. "She said that she did not know there was a dog in the bag, and if so she never would have instructed it to be put in the bin above."
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Who is the stupid bully who did this, I wish we had video.
wow, hold these thug employees accountable. Make them do something except screaming like plotting how their life makes everyones worse.
UNTIED Airlines: Okay, sorry about that. Here’s a 10% discount voucher for your next flight. KTNX Have a nice day.
Sorry but the dog is not a brother. Not even close. I am sorry about the dog though and the airline owes her a new one.
Did the family declare the dog as a service animal so that they could carry it on? Or pay extra to have it aboard? Sounds like it wasn’t in a carrier. Just saying it could have been an honest mistake. Not that I like defending UA.
This flight attendant needs a new profession.
This story stinks to high heaven. Was everyone on this flight an idiot?
Other news reports say it was a TSA approved pet carrier.
Flight attendants, particularly the ones who have been around the longest, become brain dead ... the job is monotonous and they go thru the motions without giving it much thought ... which is why this incident occurred.
Read between the lines and see how absolutely ludicrous this story is.
I put the blame on the dog owner who was either too stupid or too cheap to do the proper thing with her animal. The overhead compartment is not air-tight but there may not have been much air given whatever carrier the puppy was in.
Too many animal owners lie about their beasts so they don’t have to send it to the cargo hold or buy a ticket. This is what sometimes happen. It’s animal cruelty but not on the part of the flight attendant. Next time, put the puppy in an approved air carrier and buy him/her a ticket under the seat in front.
How could the puppy die in a overhead bin????
Knowingly put it there, yeah do they think the dog jumped in on it’s own? Knowing that it would die? Prove it in court.
The Harris County DA should be looking at charges against the flight attendant
Really? That changes the narrative a bit.
The last paragraph carries a statement from the flight attendants’ union that no flight attendant would ever knowingly put a pet in the overhead bin.
I dunno about that. Wasn’t it Southwest(?) that told a girl to flush her hamster down a toilet?
I realize that 1., it’s a bad idea to take an animal on a flight. 2., people shouldn’t let themselves be bullied like they are by the petit fascists of the TSA and airlines. But if you so much as look cross-eyed at these goons you’re likely to get your teeth knocked out and charged with a federal crime.
This is why if I can drive there in a day I do so. Then I don’t have to rent a car from Enterprise/National/Alamo.
Mother no English, different last names.
Sad story, but there are weird little crumbs, in this one.
Bulldogs like other flat nosed breeds have breathing trouble to start with. I believe airliner cabins aren’t pressurized to one full bar but are at the equivalent of a few thousand feet altitude. The bins aren’t sealed but aren’t ventilated either, they are tightly closed. Most of the volume is filled with bags. The puppy probably slowly ran the oxygen down to a level that didn’t support life. It only takes a drop of a few percent to start hypoxia.
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