United Airlines Drags Doctor Off Plane After Overbooking And Leaves Him Bloody (FULL VIDEO)

United Airlines and its chief executive faced mounting pressure on Tuesday from a worldwide backlash over its treatment of a passenger who was dragged from his seat on a plane on Sunday to make room for four employees on the overbooked flight. Lawyers for the passenger, Dr. David Dao, issued a statement late on Tuesday confirming his identity and saying that he and his family were "focused only on Dr. Dao's medical care and treatment" in a Chicago hospital. The U.S. Department of Transportation launched an inquiry into the incident, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called for new rules to curb the airline practice of overbooking flights. United CEO Oscar Munoz issued a statement on Tuesday apologizing to Dao without naming him. "I'm sorry. We will fix this," Munoz said. "I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be mistreated this way." On Monday, Munoz issued a memo to employees defending the company but not apologizing to the passenger. Munoz, a former railroad executive who took over the helm at United in 2015, had already been under pressure from activist investors to improve the airline's performance, including its customer relations. An online petition calling for Munoz to step down had nearly 22,000 signatures by early Tuesday evening. On Chinese social media, the incident attracted the attention of more than 480 million users on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform. United has about 20 percent of total U.S.-China airline traffic and has a partnership with Air China, the country's third-largest airline, according to analysts. It flies to more Chinese cities than any other U.S. carrier. Last year, United added nonstop flights from San Francisco to Hangzhou, its fifth destination in mainland China. Dao, before being dragged off the parked plane, said repeatedly that he was being discriminated against because he was Chinese, according to Tyler Bridges, a fellow passenger on the flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky. "He said, 'I'm a doctor; I need to see patients,'" said Bridges, a civil engineer from Louisville who recorded much of the incident on his phone. Shares of United Continental closed down 1.1 percent at $70.71, after falling as much as 4.4 percent earlier. The company shed as much as about $1 billion in market value before ending the day with a loss of about $250 million. More than 16 million United shares changed hands, the most for any session in a year. The stock is down about 3 percent for the year. United is also suffering from broader worries among investors about U.S. airline performance. In the United States, social media outrage continued, with the incident trending on Twitter for the second consecutive day. Many users promoted hashtags #NewUnitedAirlinesMotto and #BoycottUnitedAirlines. This is the second time in less than a month that United has been caught in a social media storm. In late March, a United gate agent's decision to refuse to board two teenage girls wearing leggings provoked a viral backlash.

Comments

1. USA MADE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORTH GET SICK
2. Lufthansa for life
3. horrible!!
4. WAAA WAAA JUST KILL ME JUST KILL ME!
5. :D can we get some names and addresses on those "cops"? Thx
6. Rery rucking rad reatment uh dis rassenger. Arrerican Rairrines whah de ruck?
7. That woman that's saying "Oh my God". Just stfu already and at least try to help the poor man. If the Dr's rights were forgotten why don't you forget about the security's rights as well.
8. 1 like= 1 respect to this poor man
9. i would have given my seat up for this guy just for the pain hes been caused by that shit
10. just saying you wouldnt see a white guy with his mouth dripping with blood like that and the police standing there
11. I blame the people In the Plane. They're like a bunch of statues just doing nothing but taking videos of this! Everyone is RACIST! Not even one person tried to help....
12. BWAHAHAHAHAHA AWESOME, FUCKING AWESOME!!!
13. That's fucked up man they messed him so bad he was saying to kill him at the end
14. I wonder why 3 other people already leaving the plane after they been chose to leave but the doctor is not. Isn't it because he is a doctor, it means he is better than 3 others ? The doctor already threaten that he wanted to make a lawsuit before nothing happen and when police hold his hands before during he be pulling out of his sit, he screams like a wolf, and over reacting, but when he be draging on floor, he acts like a lamb. I don't see any beat or abuse. I feel sorry that he was bleeding. But I'm NOT stand by his side for one reason is police were not asking him to sacrifice his life to save American or go to war fight for American. This doctor is a scammer, scam all Medicare, Medi-cal and fake prescription drugs. So he is a SCUM and this problem is like a little rat, but people make it looks like Everest mountain.
15. Ah so this is why one of their planes hit the towers
16. bro so dam dumb why kick him out he is a doctor and his kids are doctor so the airplane are going to get fucked
17. drag his azz off.
18. This is fucking terrible. But at least in the end this guy with get a lot of money from a lawsuit.
19. UA=cunts
20. the better move would have been for everyone to get off the plane with him, not stand around and record.