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

[Darla J. Rogers via nagdu]

Hi Rox,

	If they had baking soda or white vinegar or something, once the mess
was cleaned up--in flight--I am not sure why the odor should have been that
bad, unless, of course, the dog was ill, and the handler wasn't aware of
that fact yet.
Darla & Hardworking Huck


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Oh no! The only thing I could think about while reading this is that I feel
so terrible for the poor handler and dog.  I fly all the time and something
like this could just as easily happen to me.  I hope the dog is ok and got
medical treatment. 
People throw up and I have smelled some pretty potent smelling babies on a
flight. People also get sick and force emergency landings.  Life happens.
And while I know it was yucky, it could have happened to any person becoming
suddenly ill.  


 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On May 31, 2014, at 5:53 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_landi
> ng_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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> 
> 
> 
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