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Do you think it is fair to be removed from a plane for coughing? |
Travel Info There was this school age girl taking a field trip across the state with her classmates for spring break and was sleeping during take off. The pilot ask the flight attendants to remove her form the plane but she has no where to go and a teacher has to stay with her. Don't you think that is a little too extreme to treat a kid that way? Travel Tips According to reports, her coughing was deep and unrelenting. They're not doctors, so they can't diagnose according to the sound, but I do believe that they had the best interests of the passengers' health and welfare. For all they knew, she could have had whooping cough, tuberculosis, SARS, or some other highly contagious disease. Thank God that she was not that sick, and they did accomodate her after the fact, but if an Asian person were coughing, or an old sickly person coughing, and not a white teenage girl, would you be asking the same question?? To be professional and consistent, they can't dismiss things based on the fact that she was a "kid." Others I have the best answer for your question "Do you think it is fair to be removed from a plane for coughing?". Please click the link below to check my answer: http://hometown.aol.com/sexyjessica09366... I think if this is all of the facts, her parents should contact an attorney. She was removed because of her sleeping, or coughing? I think it is fair, might be a bummer but fair. I wouldn't want to be stuck in an enclosed space with someone who is sick. Basically, it comes down to the safety of the passengers, one versus the rest. =/ Sure, if the pilot believed that she was in danger, or would pose a risk to anyone else on the plane. I got no problem with it. In this particular case it turned out to be worry for no reason, but the saftey of the passengers on the flight is the first concern. It's really not a kid or adult issue. Nobody coughs that long if seated quietly and having a drink of water and such. Ok, she quits coughing, they check on her, she says she is fine and all is well. The airline personnel really don't want to fill out all of the paperwork explaining why they bumped someone and have to return to the gate. Time, money, speaking to the tower, changing takeoff order, etc. etc. So this is what probably really happened. A bunch of kids board the plane laughing, giggling and carousing and the crew is just trying to get everyone in their seat. The kids generally act ill mannered and are bothering the adults. This goes on and this girl starts coughing. The crew tells the other kids to settle down while they help her but they don't. So the lead stewardess goes to the pilot and they have a conversation. Obviously there is so much more to this whole story and %90 of adults in the world know that this would not have happened if all of the kids were behaving...... and the chaperones were in control and behaving as well. |
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