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April 12, 2017

United Apologizes Amid Fury over Video of Doctor Dragged Off Flight
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United Airlines has finally apologized, after stocks temporarily
plummeted Tuesday amid controversy over a video of a doctor being
forcibly dragged off a flight United had overbooked. When no passengers
volunteered to disembark from Sunday's flight, Dr. David Dao was
selected to be forced off. When he refused to leave, saying he had to
see patients at a hospital in Kentucky the following morning, multiple
Chicago Department of Aviation security officers dragged Dao through the
aisle, bloodying him. He tried to run back on the flight and was
forcibly removed a second time. United CEO Oscar Muņoz first defended
the company's actions, claiming Dao was "disruptive and belligerent,"
but then finally apologized Tuesday, calling the incident "horrific."
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has called for an investigation of
the airline. Dao is still hospitalized in Chicago from his injuries.


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