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Delta, KLM sued for death of obese woman denied flight
The husband of an obese woman who was turned away from flying because of her weight is suing two airlines for causing her untimely death....tried to board a third flight from Frankfurt to New York, but she was not allowed on the flight when she didn't fit in a three seat gap. "We had 140 passengers on board, and they had connections and needed to travel. The question was never the seat belt. The question was the mobility of the passenger," Lufthansa spokesman Nils Haupt told Radar… (www.cbsnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
It looks like all the extra seating thing and all was done. It seems they just flatly could not get her on the plane. At that point and time, I can't see where any of them had an obligation. The lawsuit now seems to be the American way.IMHO
No offense, but you have to read more carefully. The article said the woman would not fit in a three seat row.
I just read part of the other article and it says that they didn't have a seat belt extender at one location....She probably fit into the three seat gap but she wasn't going anywhere without a seatbelt.
No seatbelt extensions??? I find that hard to believe! That's a safety item. Depending what type of a/c you are on, there will be anywhere from 3 to 10+ extensions on board as emergency demo equipment plus spares for situations like this. I think they were using the seatbelt as an excuse for not wanting to deal with the situation!
Could be but that goes back to the point that they were in Hungary....No matter what location and what company you do business with is going to have all of the equipment that another location is going to have...One location may have to many of one paticular item while another location barely has enough to scrape by..Eventually their short comings come to the light.
The question was raised in the article and maybe should have been answered there too: what did she fly over on? It leaves a question in my mind whether it was because of the aircraft or the judgment of the flight crew. The decision over whether you fly or not is pretty subjective with no clear limits. Three seats are more than 52 inches wide. You take it from there. It's hard to believe that someone less than 500 pounds would have a beam of more than 52". She might have had a problem getting down the isle-way. My son is wheelchair bound and his chair won't fit in the isle and the airline transports him in a device from the terminal to his seat and vice-verse at the destination where they deliver him to his chair. As usual, there is more to this story than was written.
2) KLM offers obese people to buy a 2nd seat (as they use 2 seats), at a discount, so then the can fly; she did not take this chance