[nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing ofUS Airways flight to PHL

Mon Jun 2 12:50:36 UTC 2014

Y’all, I realize that I am not the moderator, but I rather think we need to be careful about slurs here. We really don’t want to offend one another, I think. 

Cindy
cindayray at gmail.com

On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Star Gazer via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> He's absolutely right. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Darla J. Rogers
> via nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:23 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing
> ofUS Airways flight to PHL
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> 	No; I don't remember that, but my husband says their baseball fans
> are the rudest in the country.
> Darla & Hardworking Huck
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Star Gazer via
> nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:41 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing
> ofUS Airways flight to PHL
> 
> Does this story really surprise anybody? The plane was going to
> Philadelphia, the city of brotherly shove. 
> You all remember what W.C. Fields said, "First prize is a week in
> Philadelphia,, second prize is *two weeks in Philadelphia, or something like
> that". 
> I suspect nobody on that flight really wanted to go to Philadelphia, so they
> were glad for the excuse to land in Kansas City. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray via
> nagdu
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 3:32 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing
> ofUS Airways flight to PHL
> 
> In most of the stories I have heard about people being subdued on flights,
> it doesn't seem there has been nearly as much interviewing of passengers. Of
> course, I will admit that part of the problem here is empathy for the dog
> handler because I have been in similar situations. In an airport my dog, who
> was nervous and thus stimulated, pooped as we were rushing through the
> airport to try to get her out. On the radio they said, "You'd better send a
> clean up crew; the dog is leaving a trail." But of course from the
> reporter's perspective, if this plane, which was going to Philadelphia, had
> to make an unscheduled landing in Kansas City, that is a story, especially
> with the situations that have come up on flights lately. As for the
> comments, I'm not sure they were terribly in compassionate. But as a dog
> handler, I can just imagine going to fly and well meaning flight service
> representatives being condescending about does your dog need to use the
> bathroom. Will he be OK on the flight. Perhaps my own first reaction was
> overreacting, and I probably wouldn't have even heard about the story if
> Ginger hadn't posted it. Still . 
> 
> Cindy Ray
> cindyray at gmail.com
> 
> On May 31, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Elizabeth Campbell via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Craig,
>> 
>> Thank you for your post to the list.
>> I was about to write something along the same lines, but you beat me 
>> to
> it.
>> (smile)
>> As reporters, we often face what I call no-win situations. We will get 
>> criticized for not reporting the reason for an emergency landing, and 
>> we will face criticism for reporting the reason why a plane had to 
>> make an emergency landing.
>> I feel for everyone involved, and I'm sure the dog's owner wouldn't 
>> have taken the dog onboard if he/she knew that the animal was sick.
>> The airlines are under a great deal of scrutiny these days, but people 
>> want to know what is going on whether the story is about a near miss 
>> or an emergency landing.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Liz
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Craig Heaps 
>> via nagdu
>> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 1:09 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency 
>> landing ofUS Airways flight to PHL
>> 
>> As a professional journalist for nearly forty years and a guide dog 
>> user myself, I could not disagree more with those who criticize this 
>> as a
> story.
>> 
>> It is a legitimate news story.  It's an extraordinary event on a form 
>> of transportation used by millions of people every year in the United
> States.
>> It is the fact that it happens so seldom that makes it news.  It has 
>> the element of "Can you imagine being in that situation?" that also 
>> makes it worthy of coverage.  I thought the reporter did an excellent 
>> job of putting the incident in perspective by including the guy from 
>> The Seeing Eye and the comments from the airline spokesperson saying 
>> it's
> extremely rare.
>> 
>> I am sympathetic with those passengers who found the smell overwhelming. 
>> It's not the atmosphere they expected when they paid good money for 
>> their tickets.
>> 
>> I can understand the defensiveness of some guide dog users who want to 
>> lash out at the journalistic decision to cover this incident.  But 
>> they sound like the people I had to deal with every day who didn't 
>> want some event or another "publicized" (reporters hate that word) and 
>> tried to argue it was stupid to think it was a legitimate story.
>> Think about the last time you heard the story of some belligerent 
>> drunk on a plane who had to be restrained with the help of other 
>> passengers.  Another disturbing, but rare, event.  Was covering that 
>> also
> stupid?
>> 
>> Sorry for the semi rant.
>> 
>> Craig and Chase, who I hope never poops in an airliner
>> 
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