Mike Rowe did a fantastic job of writing about this. It's weird that I
find myself agreeing with him more and more, the older I get. But
anyway, his point is that there is absolutely no place for anarchy
inside the tube of aluminum. When the crew tells you to do something,
you do it. Period. Take up your case outside the plane, but what that
guy did was not acceptable and force WAS REQUIRED once he proved
himself unwilling to follow the law and refused to leave.
Frankly, had I been on that plane, if he wouldn't have been removed, I
would have walked off the plane myself. I won't willingly put myself
into a threat environment where you have a fully-crazed out lunatic
kept on the plane with me at 35,000 feet. No way, no how. I would have
been outta there.
The fact that everybody and their "service animal" was video capturing
this event tells me that the situation had escalated to the point of
crisis long before he was dragged down the aisle.
United botched this up on a PR perspective, but laws are laws and this
guy was far beyond the point of being allowed to stay on the plane.
Frankly, the blame also resides with the people on the flight that
COULD have given up their seats once THEY heard that he was a doctor
needing to get back. Oh, but no...
AG (Southwest) Schnozz
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