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‘No veterans left behind’: Group of almost 60 veterans deboard plane after one was told he wasn’t able to fly
Onlookers described it as a powerful show of solidarity. A group of nearly 60 U.S. veterans on their way home from Washington, D.C., decided to deboard a plane when one veteran was told he couldn’t fly due to safety concerns.
The group of veterans, all residents of Oklahoma, had just completed a four-day trip to the nation’s capital organized by Northeast Oklahoma Veterans Freedom Tour, a nonprofit dedicated to taking veterans on tours of memorials and monuments all around the country.
According to KOTV-TV, they were seated on a plane in Charlotte, N.C., and ready for take-off back to Tulsa when they learned that one member of their group was unable to fly. His oxygen concentrator had run out of batteries and couldn’t be recharged using the plane’s electrical outlets.
With no way to charge the medical device, American Airlines determined it would be unsafe for the veteran to undertake the flight, per company policies. In the interest of his safety, they informed him that he couldn’t fly.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/veterans-deboard-plane-after-one-couldnt-fly
Of course I cannot speak with authority on this, but it seems reasonable to me. It is not as if it was a trans Atlantic flight or something.