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United Apologizes Amid Fury over Video of Doctor Dragged Off Flight

HeadlineApr 12, 2017

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 Muñoz 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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