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PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off....
daily mail uk ^ | April 11, 2017 | Liam Quinn and Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airlines; airplane; daviddao; doctor; ual; united
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To: Morgana
"First of all it's their fault they overbooked..."

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."

21 posted on 04/11/2017 10:31:54 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Morgana

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

Let’s all get it out of our systems!


22 posted on 04/11/2017 10:32:22 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mr. K

“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...


23 posted on 04/11/2017 10:32:31 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mr. K

“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...


24 posted on 04/11/2017 10:32:35 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
If I have to fly on a tight schedule and urgent matters await me at my destination, I fly first/business class. One of the reasons you pay extra for those seats is that you never get bumped from an overbooked flight.

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.

25 posted on 04/11/2017 10:33:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Morgana

His behavior was weird in the extreme. I really don’t care one way or the other.


26 posted on 04/11/2017 10:33:29 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: humblegunner

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.


27 posted on 04/11/2017 10:33:32 AM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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To: Morgana

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.


28 posted on 04/11/2017 10:33:37 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (Build the wall !)
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To: Mr. K

Would you go to this doctor after this display?!


29 posted on 04/11/2017 10:35:07 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Mr. K
"When weather patterns shift flights, they must get pilots to different cities or HUNDREDS of passengers will be stranded."

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?

30 posted on 04/11/2017 10:35:22 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Morgana

Huh....a British newspaper.....wonder why they would care about this....it’s almost like Britain has airlines that compete with United.


31 posted on 04/11/2017 10:35:50 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: AppyPappy
He got back on the plane afterwards.

Sux to be the patients who had appointments with him the next day...

32 posted on 04/11/2017 10:36:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: Morgana

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.


33 posted on 04/11/2017 10:36:20 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Would you go to this doctor after this display?!

You mean after he'd been Tazed from a very short range to the point at which his nervous system was f'ed up?

34 posted on 04/11/2017 10:38:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: mass55th; Mr. K

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!!!!


35 posted on 04/11/2017 10:38:29 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Yes.


36 posted on 04/11/2017 10:38:32 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Morgana

What? The ambush on 93 wasn’t on the ground - it was in midair. The pilot was murdered. Come on. No comparison.


37 posted on 04/11/2017 10:39:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: grania

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.


38 posted on 04/11/2017 10:40:39 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: grania

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.


39 posted on 04/11/2017 10:40:40 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: CodeToad
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.

Yup.

Gosh, you don't supposed the UA lawyers are trying to steer the public narrative, eh? LOL

40 posted on 04/11/2017 10:41:33 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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