[spudigitti]

Anila Daulatzai, an academic with a doctorate, was removed from a Los Angeles-bound Southwest Airlines flight at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on September 26, 2017, after objecting to dogs in the cabin and refusing crew requests to leave. Southwest said she had reported a life-threatening pet allergy, could not provide the medical certificate required to fly and declined an offer to be rebooked. Her lawyers said she never described the allergy as life-threatening and was never asked for a certificate.

Maryland Transportation Authority Police officers pushed and pulled Daulatzai from the plane as she argued and gripped seatbacks. She told them she was pregnant and would walk off herself, but the officers doubted her claim and continued the removal. Southwest publicly apologized the next day.

Daulatzai was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, obstructing and hindering an officer, and failure to obey a lawful order. A court found her guilty of disorderly conduct and imposed six months of unsupervised probation before judgment, a fine and costs. Under that disposition, no final conviction is entered if probation is completed. Prosecutors dropped the other four counts. Daulatzai later sued Southwest and Maryland, alleging that the allergy rationale was pretextual and the removal racially motivated. Her claims were dismissed, and the Fourth Circuit affirmed that dismissal on March 20, 2024.

[zin0]

Yet again

[DiabloLucky13]

"I'm a Professor! What are you doing!"

Kickin' your ass off the plane bitch

[kellyhound]

Police officers physically removed a woman from a Southwest Airlines plane before it took off from Baltimore, the latest passenger scuffle to be captured on video and magnified on social media.

After saying she was severely allergic to animals - there were two dogs on board - the woman refused the crew's request to leave the plane. The crew then called on police to intervene.

A film producer recorded the ensuing struggle between the woman and officers and posted it online. The scene from Tuesday night was reminiscent of an April incident in which security officers yanked a man out of his seat and dragged him off a United Express flight in Chicago, sparking a public outcry about shoddy treatment of airline passengers.

Southwest, perhaps learning from United's initial hesitant reaction, immediately apologized. "We are disheartened by the way this situation unfolded and the customer's removal by local law enforcement officers," Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz said Wednesday.

Mainz said the woman had reported she had a life-threatening pet allergy but couldn't show a medical certificate that she needed to continue on the flight to Los Angeles.

The incident began quietly near the back of the plane, passengers said, as Southwest employees - including one of the pilots - talked to the woman. Mainz said the airline offered to rebook her on a flight the next day, but she declined - hers was the last flight of the night.

Airline employees ended up calling police, and the officers asked her to leave.

One officer pushed her from behind while another pulled her from in front, the video showed.

"What are you doing?" she asked. "I will walk off. Don't touch me!"

"All right, let's walk. Let's walk," one of the officers answered.

One passenger urged the woman to file a complaint, others urged her to walk off the plane so she wouldn't get injured.

The airline declined to give the passenger's name. She could be heard identifying herself as a professor. She told officers she needed to get to Los Angeles because her father was having surgery the next day.

"She put up a pretty ferocious fight to not be removed from the plane," said Bill Dumas, the film producer who took the video.

Dumas said the police officers "were in a very, very tough situation" because of the woman's resistance, and Southwest didn't have much choice because the plane wouldn't take off until the woman left.

Southwest does not notify passengers ahead of time about animals on board.

"In most cases, we can separate the animal from customer with an allergy," said Mainz, the Southwest spokesman. "The onus is on the customer to tell us what their needs are."

United was widely condemned after security officers in Chicago dragged a 69-year-old man off an overbooked United Express flight to make room for crew members flying to their next flight. United CEO Oscar Munoz was excoriated for initially blaming the passenger, who lost teeth and suffered a concussion. United reached a settlement with the passenger for undisclosed terms.

"In terms of customer service, the airline industry has had a challenging year," said Marc Raybin, president of a public-relations firm in South Bend, Indiana. He said that Southwest and the transit police in Baltimore may have followed their rules, "but the optics of this certainly look bad for Southwest and the airline industry as whole."

Southwest, Raybin said, should keep apologizing, pick up the cost of the passenger's flight and expenses, and "do not blame the customer at any point."

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[spudigitti]

She's a nutt I'm calling it now

You can beat me if I'm wrong innit !!

[Susan]

Just an over entitled bitch. She wanted the dogs kicked off the plane by saying she had a life threatening allergy, not realising that meant she would need to show a medical certificate to say she was safe to fly then. Har har. Do one, Professor. You're not at work now, get your arse off the plane.

[chuck Dean]

I kinda felt bad for her for a few seconds. You can see in her face that she's never really been pushed around.
Resisting the cops though... Just suck it up and walk off the plane quietly, if I were to do some shit like that, I would have gotten beat up and tazzed. They should have sent a crew of female cops to talk to her. Maybe we'd see some blood!

[Oswald2001]

"I'm a professor!" (Get's kicked in the butt. ) LOL!

[FunkPumpkin]

My roommate is deathly-allergic to a bunch of stuff. As required by airlines, she carries medical documentation stating her specific allergies. And yes, she carries an EpiPen everywhere.

This dumbass didn't have the required documentation, so as a result, they kick her off and not the people with allergens. Life's rough, bitch... get a fucking helmet. You did this to yourself.

[nascarfan7]

Ok from now on you don't want to get off the plane when asked, fine. Now sit there until your ready. Meanwhile here's some peanuts. When you are ready to leave the plane, the police will be waiting. We'll fly to all our stops. You'll get to say you've been to all these lovely destinations. Thanks for flying.