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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The passenger who was dragged from an United Airlines flight is 69-year-old grandfather Dr David Dao.
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Well what that proves is that people who are 69 years old and people who are doctors can be just as stupid as anyone else.
Both United and British Airways fly between US cities and European cities.
In United's Contract of carriage, they discuss the terms for a "Denied Boarding" situation (due to overbooking):
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriage.aspx#sec25
In the "Refusal of Service" section they discuss the conditions under which they can deny service and remove you from the plane. This situation isn't covered.
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriage.aspx#sec21
So, the overbooking situation needs to be handled before they allow passengers onto the plane. Once boarded, they cannot remove a passenger without cause (disorderly conduct, emergency, etc.).
The plane was not oversold per UA’s own definition of that term in its own policies in their contract. There were not more passengers with tickets than seats. The crew members that were displacing the “re-accommodated” passengers were not ticket holders.
Exactly the situation as it stands.
Nothing you said applied in this case.
This was not an oversale condition. UA will say it was, but they booked their employees after they knew the plane for full.
Also, Dr Dao was already boarded, which means UA illegally denied transport of a paid passenger. UA will argue that it was really just a denial of boarding since the flight had not pushed off.
Even if you buy that line-of-bull, UA did not follow the proper procedure to select passengers for involuntarily denial of boarding. Hint, late boarding, non-reservation, non-fare passengers, like the UA employees are the first to go.
UA illegally ejected a passenger for their own convenience. They will rightfully pay the price.
The Daily Mail is the best newspaper for coverage of events in the US
The airline business is a customer service business. The passenger was boarded. His luggage was on board. The UAL manager came aboard and demanded four volunteers to deboard. When no one volunteered he ordered four passengers to be taken off the plane randomly. The 69 year old man was the third passenger ORDERED OFF the plane. He refused. The Manager called law enforcement and had the man violently removed.
You are telling me that UAL has no clue how many crew members they have to move around the country BEFORE they board the passengers? I call piss poor management on UAL’s side. I hope they have to pay dearly for this atrocity. How dare a US company treat its customers this way!
Note: I have no problem with the airlines informing passengers before they board that they have to take a later flight (which in this case was 22 hours later). If the passenger manages to negotiate a "deal" more power to that passenger.
One of the few Freepers who knows what he/she is talking about. Well done!
1. If Capt says you're off the ship, you GTFO. His aircraft, his rules.
2. Doc made a scene and likely rattled passengers, esp running back on the a/c
3. Could airline handle this one better? Maybe. But 3 other passengers had no problem with egress.
4. This guy's behavior seems unstable. He's on, he's off; he accepts voucher, then declines voucher; refuses to exit with authorities.
If compensation is rendered it will only reinforce this type of behavior. Lot of misinfo at this point. Withholding my final judgement here, but most of us travel without resorting to belligerent behavior that requires authorities to get involved.
“The plane was not oversold per UA’s own definition of that term in its own policies in their contract. There were not more passengers with tickets than seats. The crew members that were displacing the “re-accommodated” passengers were not ticket holders.”
Okay for those of us who never fly the friendly skies, please explain to us in English what that means?
All news reports, and have followed this since the beginning have said the plane was “overbooked”. Why is/was the news saying this?
So Chow Mein is a Card shark?
Well what that proves is that if people want to drag up something from 11 years ago about this man that have nothing to so with the price of tea in China (NO PUN INTENDED) Then I can bring up Untied’s safety in the air.
Oh please like hijackings had not happened before? How far back? Can you say “Dan Cooper”? Why don’t ever airline not train their Stewardess in Karate, Judo or something?
If United wants to “blame the victim” well two can play at that game!!!
This is a failure of United to grasp the nature of the free market. They needed four seats but were unwilling to recognize a sellers market when it presented itself to them. To get the seats they needed, all they needed to do was find the right price. Obviously, it was not $1000 in future flight vouchers. Perhaps had they upped the offer or offered cash instead, four passengers would have found the offer acceptable and the adequate number of seats would have become available without resorting to force. They lacked negotiating skills, or simply got frustrated that their offer was falling on deaf ears.
Apparently. He has a standing with the World Series of Poker [WSOP], players club.
He primarily played no-limit Texas Hold-em during that span.
Dao Was Convicted of Prescribing a Patient With Painkillers In Exchange for Sex in Louisville
Before His Drug Convictions, Dao, Who Fled Vietnam to Come to America, Treated Patients at a Hospital & Owned His Own Practice
One Patient Ended Up Working For Dao At His Practice & Quit Because of Sexual Advances Made By Him, He Said In a Criminal Complaint
He even pursued a career as a chef/cook.
In addition to the above convictions, Dao was indicted in Nelson County with eight felony counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud and deceit and eight more of complicity to obtain controlled substances by fraud and deceit. Those charges were all dismissed in April 2005.
https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2017/04/dr-david-dao-poker-gambling-medical-license/
Sounds like an angel to me.
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