Posted on 04/11/2017 7:48:10 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past.
Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now-viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville-bound flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for sex favors.
According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation.
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I think the guy was screaming because he was tazed. It also explains the disorientation that seemed by apparently as he was being dragged off.
It look to me like the cop deployed the tazer up close as he was leaning over the passenger.
It may not have been overbooked, if the part about United giving their employees preference over paying customers is true. That's even worse than overbooking, IMO.
It'd be interesting to know if any of this is covered in the airlines' "customer agreement" boilerplate. Even if it is, it's still damaging and United knows it. This smear attempt may end up hurting United as much as the initial offense.
I’ll bet the whole thing made him nostalgic for his time in Vietnam.
So this Doctor knew that four United employees would need seats and he knew that his name would be randomly selected from the computer. Sounds plausible as a conspiracy on FreeRepublic.
He served he court ordered punishment, and repaid his debt to society 9 years ago! Are you allowed to abuse someone because they were once a convicted felon?
10 yr old dirt. He could be a murderer, but it doesn’t change the shoddy way he was treated as a customer a few days ago...
In fact, the issue here is that United initially solved the over-booking problem.
Then they ask for 4 more passengers to give up their seats for a flight crew to board because they needed to get to Louisville for a next day work assignment.
That is United’s problem. The doctor wasn’t removed because the flight was over-booked but was removed for a flight crew.
United should have kept upping the money offer until 4 people volunteered. Surely at 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 or $10,000 offer, 4 people would volunteer to give up their seats.
Corporate media at work...my guess is the UAL marketing budget just increased by tens of millions.
I'm no expert, but I believe the airlines have very clear policies that they don't have to let you on their plane. But once they let you on, I think their policies get very much less clear. Dragging the guy off AFTER they allowed him on? The airline is standing on ground which is (at least) not rock solid.
Then why isn’t he in prison instead of flying on United? Or is that the punishment?
> My only question is why they didn’t summarily execute the man! <
My only question is why weren’t any dogs shot? There must have been one or two being transported that day. And if not on that particular plane, then surely on another.
The flight was not over-booked. It was sold out. A full plane of paying ticketed customers with boarding passes.
Kill everyone and there's your solution.
Kill everyone and there's your solution.
What does his prior conviction have to do with his being assaulted by the Nazi airport security?
Smear job. This doesn’t have anything to do with what UAL did.
Burn 'em all alive.
FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES!
Wow. So its worse than I understood. They weren’t bumping him for another paying customer, they were bumping him for the convenience of United employees.
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