This story comes to us via Inclusion Daily. As a person with a disability who has been humiliated on airplanes more than once, I can attest that the airline industry is still doing a woeful job of educating its workforce about the laws of the United States.
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Quadriplegic Passenger Forced Off Frontier Flight
(KMGH)
June 21, 2011
DENVER, COLORADO– [Excerpt] A quadriplegic man from Fort Collins was forced off a Frontier Airlines plane because a pilot said it wasn't safe for him to fly.
His mother, Kathleen Morris, said there was no problem two days earlier when her son flew Frontier from Denver International Airport to Dallas to attend a family wedding.
But Sunday afternoon, when he boarded in Dallas to come home, John Morris and his family said they were humiliated.
"When a flight attendant saw John strapped in, they said they would have to clear it with the captain," said Kathleen Morris.
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Quadriplegic Passenger Forced Off Frontier Flight
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