Screaming Man Forcibly Removed From Seat, Dragged off Overbooked United Flight
April 10, 2017
CHICAGO — A man claiming to be a doctor was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago on Sunday night, and video of the incident was posted to social media.
The video shows the man screaming as he is dragged off the plane by uniformed personnel. The plane was about to take off from Chicago to Louisville, Ky.
Audra Bridges told the Louisville Courier-Journal that the flight was overbooked, and passengers were offered $400 and a free hotel room in exchange for their seat.
No passengers took the offer. After passengers got on the plane, Bridges said United doubled the offer to $800.
@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