A man with cerebral palsy was on a United Airlines flight when he had to use the restroom. Unfortunately it was during the landing process. Even after the plane had landed he could not use the bathroom as the crew had removed a wheelchair for him to use. He had to wait until the plane deboarded and then crawl to the bathroom. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“A Virginia man with cerebral palsy had to crawl off his flight after United Airlines reportedly failed to offer him assistance after landing.
Passenger D’Arcee Neal waited for flight crews to bring him an aisle-sized chair to help him disembark after landing at Reagan National Airport Tuesday night. After waiting and then urgently needing to use the bathroom, Neal was reduced to crawling half the length of the plane, down the aisle and to the doorway where his regular wheelchair awaited, he told NBC Washington.
“I was like, ‘I don’t have time for this,'” Neal told the NBC affiliate. “I decided to get out and crawl down the plane to my chair.”
Neal called the experience “humiliating” and said, “No one should have to do what I did.”