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

Sat May 31 14:24:40 UTC 2014

I honestly just have to shake  my head at this whole situation. It
goes along with the general public's perception that our dogs are or
need to be perfect at all times.

Minh

On 5/31/14, Marsha Drenth via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> all, I agree that this is a very ridiculous story. It's not that I have a
> problem with the journalism part of it. I have more of a problem with the
> passengers who made such a big deal of this. How are wages for fellow human
> beings, to be so rude comment to an animal. When an animal cannot help it.
> Unfortunately sometimes our digestive systems do not cooperate. It's just as
> if, human, would have an accident. Granted, most of us would not let that
> happen. And or most of us could hold it. But an animal cannot do that. This
> poor guy dog team. I am very happy at what the Seeing eye president said. I
> wish I could get onto Twitter and really tera this passengers. What happened
> to normal kindness and sensitivity in a situation like this. Just my two
> cents,
>
> Marsha drenth
> email: marsha.drenth at gmail.com
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>> On May 31, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Ginger Kutsch via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing of US Airways flight to PHL
>>
>> By Sam  Wood
>>
>> Friday, May 30, 2014,
>>
>> http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Dogs_distress_forces_emergency_landing_of_
>> US_Airways_flight_to_PHL.html?withgh
>>
>>
>>
>> Airline passengers often grumble about leg room and the quality of
>> airplane
>> food.
>>
>>
>>
>> There's a new complaint being aired by a few hundred souls who boarded a
>> flight Wednesday from Los Angeles to Philadelphia: Not enough
>> pooper-scoopers.
>>
>>
>>
>> A Philadelphia-bound US Airways flight, already two-hours delayed, was
>> forced to make an emergency landing in Missouri after a passenger's
>> service
>> dog defecated in the aisle.
>>
>>
>>
>> "It was the worst smelling blowout I've ever smelled," passenger Steve
>> McCall told Inside Edition. "It wasn't little pieces, it was full-fledged
>> dog diarrhea."
>>
>>
>>
>> The crew was able to clean up the dog's mess. But then the situation took
>> a
>> turn for the worse.
>>
>>
>>
>> The dog pooped again.
>>
>>
>>
>> The stench wafting through the cabin made several passengers sick.
>>
>>
>>
>> "The second time after the dog pooped they ran out of paper towels, they
>> didn't have anything else," said McCall. "The pilot comes on the radio,
>> 'Hey, we have a situation in the back, we're going to have to emergency
>> land.' "
>>
>>
>>
>> Outraged passengers documented the incident on Twitter and other social
>> media platforms.
>>
>>
>>
>> "People started dry-heaving, a couple of people threw up," McCall said.
>> "The
>> first time was bad, the second time people said 'You got to get us out of
>> here! This is nasty.' "
>>
>>
>>
>> The plane was diverted to Kansas City. A cleaning crew scoured the aisle.
>> The voyage resumed.
>>
>>
>>
>> "You just had to laugh," McCall said. "It was so outrageous and out of
>> control. It was a story you couldn't make up."
>>
>>
>>
>> Service dogs are "usually excellent flyers," said Bill McGlashen,
>> spokesman
>> for US Airways. "They know how to behave and sit in the right area. And
>> this
>> is just one of the those incidents when the dog became ill."
>>
>>
>>
>> Folks who rely on service dogs every day say the incident may be much ado
>> about nothing.
>>
>>
>>
>> "I'm sure this would not be a news story if a human had been sick on a
>> plane," said Jim Kutsch, president and CEO at The Seeing Eye in
>> Morristown,
>> N.J. and a Seeing Eye dog user since 1970. "Dogs are living beings and
>> they,
>> too, get sick."
>>
>>
>>
>> Dogs routinely spend many hours without needing to relieve themselves, he
>> said. Travelers with service dogs usually adjust the feeding schedules of
>> their animals to accommodate a long flight.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Seeing Eye has been around since 1929, and if this is the first time that
>> a
>> story like this gets this much attention, it obviously doesn't happen
>> very
>> often."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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