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

Sat May 31 21:51:48 UTC 2014

Tami, in the abov message I said "shirt happens!" this was because one time 
my daughter wrote me from Taiwan after playing soccer. She was telling us 
that they were pinching and pulling shirts. But, she some how forgot the r 
in shirt! I teased her about it for a long time!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Jarvis via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing of 
US Airways flight to PHL

Yeah. That is a great quote. A nice way to say, "Stuff happens, so get
over it."

The poor handler. Bad enough having a sick dog in a plane, but now
he/she is stuck in a strange airport with a sick dog... And the entire
world by now knows it's *that* dog and that it's everybody's business.
/shudder/ Hope there are folks around who have some understanding and
compassion. I also hope the dog recovers quickly and that this is not
something serious.

Tami

On 05/31/2014 05:14 AM, Cindy Ray via nagdu wrote:
> What a stupid news story. The poor person whose dog it was. I like what 
> Jim Kutch said in response to the reporters. I know it was just horrific, 
> I can only imagine. The vent systems in planes carry those kinds of odors 
> throughout the plane. But really? Is it fair to subject the passenger 
> whose dog it was to all of that hoopla? I’ve had incidents in airports 
> with a dog and it was embarrassing to the max. To have the experience go 
> out to the whole world like that would just be a mortification.
>
> Cindy Lou
> cindyray at gmail.com
>
> 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_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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