Passenger Forcibly Removed From United Flight, Prompting Outcry
Videos show a man wrenched from his seat and dragged down the aisle, to other passengers' horror. United says the flight was "overbooked"; passengers say the airline needed seats for staff to fly.
Passengers on a United flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., were horrified when a man was forcibly removed — violently wrenched from his seat and physically dragged down the aisle — to clear a seat for airline staff.
United has not responded to NPR's requests for comment, but on Twitter, a representative of the airline the flight in
