I don’t usually report on these types of things, but I was pretty shocked by the raw footage and United’s response. Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked, United asked for volunteers to receive compensation to be “bumped” to a later flight. Apparently they were unable to get enough volunteers, so instead they bumped a passenger. That passenger refused to leave the plane, law enforcement was called and then this took place:
@united @FoxNews @CNN not a good way to treat a Doctor trying to get to work because they overbooked pic.twitter.com/sj9oHk94Ik
— Tyler Bridges (@Tyler_Bridges) April 9, 2017
@peopleteams @united @StoryArcCreativ @CNN @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/fxjcKZgweg
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017
It seems that passenger was then able to get back on the plane:
@united @CNN @FoxNews @WHAS11 Man forcibly removed from plane somehow gets back on still bloody from being removed pic.twitter.com/njS3nC0pDl
— Tyler Bridges (@Tyler_Bridges) April 10, 2017
It’s alleged that the passenger that was forcibly removed was a doctor that needed to see patients the following morning. You can view United’s official twitter responses below to this incident:
@USAnonymous Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave ^MD
— United (@united) April 10, 2017
@USAnonymous the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. ^MD
— United (@united) April 10, 2017
I’m sure there is a lot more to this situation and story, and I’ll update this post as more comes to light.
