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

[sheila via nagdu]

wow interesting post. Dogs do get sick and fortunately it doesn't happen 
often.
On 5/31/2014 4:53 AM, Ginger Kutsch via nagdu 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
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> Airline passengers often grumble about leg room and the quality of airplane
> food.
>
>   
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> 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.
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>   
>
> 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.
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> "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."
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> The crew was able to clean up the dog's mess. But then the situation took a
> turn for the worse.
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> The dog pooped again.
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> The stench wafting through the cabin made several passengers sick.
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> "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.' "
>
>   
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> Outraged passengers documented the incident on Twitter and other social
> media platforms.
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> "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.' "
>
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> The plane was diverted to Kansas City. A cleaning crew scoured the aisle.
> The voyage resumed.
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> "You just had to laugh," McCall said. "It was so outrageous and out of
> control. It was a story you couldn't make up."
>
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> 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."
>
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> Folks who rely on service dogs every day say the incident may be much ado
> about nothing.
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> "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."
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> 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.
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>   
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> "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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