Posted on 04/11/2017 10:15:19 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off an overbooked United flight as CEO pens 'tone deaf' email DEFENDING staff
The passenger who was dragged from an United Airlines flight is 69-year-old grandfather Dr David Dao.
Footage of the Vietnamese-American being hauled off the overbooked flight at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Sunday caused outrage on Monday.
Dr Dao was heard in videos captured of his shocking eviction saying he needed to get home to Louisville so he could see patients.
DailyMail.com can reveal Dr Dao is a father of five and a grandfather, who specializes in internal medicine. Four of his five children are doctors.
His wife Teresa, 69, is a pediatrican who trained at Ho Chi Minh University in Saigon and also practices in Elizabethtown, Kentucky - about 40 miles south of Louisville.
Their eldest son Tim, 34, practices medicine in Texas; their second son Ben, 31, is a medical graduate; their daughter Christine, 33, is a doctor in Durham, NC; and their youngster daughter Angela, 27, is a medical graduate of the University of Kentucky.
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Good points, but what I don't understand, if they had to kick people off one flight to Kentucky, to make room for flight staff for a flight out of Kentucky the next day, why didn't they just cancel or delay the upcoming flight instead of dragging people off a flight that was sitting on the runway ready to leave? I'm not a regular user of airlines. The last time I flew was in 2007. It makes me glad that I don't have to depend on any of them on a regular basis.
You mentioned Senator Byrd. I remember Rush talking about ex-Speaker of the House Tom Foley not long after he died. I did a search and found this at Rush's site:
"He [Tom Foley] became famous after he left office for taking airline food off the plane. He would hoard airline meals and ask other passengers for theirs and would get off the plane with all that. I kid you not. I think that’s… Once you get used to taking other people’s stuff."
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
Let’s all get it out of our systems!
“Flight Travel is not A RIGHT. The airline was well within their rights to do exactly what they did.”
They paid for the ticket!! I say boycott United!! ...oh wait..their stocks are DOWN...
“Flight Travel is not A RIGHT. The airline was well within their rights to do exactly what they did.”
They paid for the ticket!! I say boycott United!! ...oh wait..their stocks are DOWN...
It's a hard lesson to learn the first time, but you shouldn't pay for a ride in a rickshaw and then complain that it ain't a Lexus.
His behavior was weird in the extreme. I really don’t care one way or the other.
You’re blaming the victim with this non-sequitur. There’s no economically justifiable reason for overbooking. They keep the profits they planned on by having a no-refund policy for no-shows. (if not, why not?) A seated passenger should NEVER be removed for another. The disruptions, luggage, a smooth start to the crowded flight are all impacted. It’s 297 miles from Chicago to Louisvilee. A charter plane or rental car would’ve gotten the employees to Louisville in plenty of time.
this Dr booked with an airline that he knows will pull people off of flights when they are overbooked/overweight. He took the cheapest and then is mad when the downside of cheap happens to him
“Don’t you know who I am?”
Then he starts fighting with police, rather than peacefully leaving. Did he really think that if he held onto his seat tight enough that they would decide to let him stay ?
He’s like stupid blacks at a traffic stop who seem to believe that if they can’t be dragged out of the car, the police will just give up and let them drive away.
Too dumb to be a Dr, I don’t want him near me.
Would you go to this doctor after this display?!
So it's okay to violate a passenger's rights, physically assault him, humiliate him alongside his family, just so the rights of other passengers on a future flight aren't violated?
Huh....a British newspaper.....wonder why they would care about this....it’s almost like Britain has airlines that compete with United.
Sux to be the patients who had appointments with him the next day...
Blah blah blah...All that and not a peep about what happened. Typical propaganda reporting. Paragraph after paragraph of crap but not a single detail of the facts.
You mean after he'd been Tazed from a very short range to the point at which his nervous system was f'ed up?
United removes these people by force but on 9-11 can’t removed terrorists who have taken over Flight 93? NO the passengers have to do that themselves!! WEAK WEAK WEAK!!!!
Yes.
What? The ambush on 93 wasn’t on the ground - it was in midair. The pilot was murdered. Come on. No comparison.
The airlines do everything for profits.
It’s interesting though, these are the same companies for profit who rain down jet exhaust on all these major cities as they take off and land 24/7, and no one below receives a penny for being dusted around the clock.
It isn’t his plane.
Flying is a privilege, not a right.
Nothing entitles him to refuse to get off the plane.
Could it have been handled better? Maybe.
Once the cops are called, it’s over. Flipping out about things
after that point will only get you hurt. You may beat
the rap but you won’t beat the ride.
KungPao Doctor Man does not make the rules on any airline I ever heard of.
Yup.
Gosh, you don't supposed the UA lawyers are trying to steer the public narrative, eh? LOL
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