Security officers who dragged passenger from United plane fired
Two security officers who dragged a passenger from a United Airlines’ flight in April, sparking worldwide outrage, have been fired.
Their sacking was quietly revealed in a report published on Tuesday by the Chicago inspector general Joseph Ferguson.
Two other Chicago Department of Aviation officers remain suspended.
The report stated ’employees made misleading statements and deliberately removed material facts from their reports’.
Chicago Department of Aviation dismissed the officer ‘who improperly escalated the incident’ and also a sergeant who deliberately withheld facts from a report. Both are appealing their dismissals.
The April 13 incident resulted in passenger David Dao, 69 being violently dragged from the plane after he refused to give up his seat on the overbooked flight, causing an international uproar and a PR disaster for United.
The airline has since settled with Dao for an undisclosed sum and made sweeping changes to its overbooking policy.
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