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Rosie O'Donnell booted off US Airways flight after becoming disruptive
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Blaming Spoons
Dec 12, 2014, 11:18:50 PM12/12/14
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WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) -- This was a pig that truly could not
fly.
The pig was ordered off a U.S. Airways plane at Bradley
International Airport in Connecticut on Wednesday after
crewmembers determined the animal had become disruptive, said
Laura Masvidal, a spokeswoman for U.S. Airways parent American
Airlines said Friday.
The pig had been brought aboard the flight by a passenger as an
emotional support animal, Masvidal said. She said both the pig
and its owner left the aircraft before it took off. She had no
other details and did not immediately know where the flight was
headed.
Jonathan Skolnik, a University of Massachusetts professor who
was on the flight, told ABC News that he initially thought the
female passenger was carrying a duffel bag.
"But it turns out it wasn't a duffel bag. We could smell it and
it was a pig on a leash," he said.
The woman sat in an empty seat next to him and tethered the pig -
- which he estimated weighed 50-70 pounds -- to the arm rest,
but the animal began walking back and forth, Skolnik said.
Emotional support animals are allowed on commercial flights
under U.S. Department of Transportation rules as long as they
are not disruptive, Masdival said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_27039860/pig-booted-
off-us-airways-flight-after-becoming?source=JBarTicker
fly.
The pig was ordered off a U.S. Airways plane at Bradley
International Airport in Connecticut on Wednesday after
crewmembers determined the animal had become disruptive, said
Laura Masvidal, a spokeswoman for U.S. Airways parent American
Airlines said Friday.
The pig had been brought aboard the flight by a passenger as an
emotional support animal, Masvidal said. She said both the pig
and its owner left the aircraft before it took off. She had no
other details and did not immediately know where the flight was
headed.
Jonathan Skolnik, a University of Massachusetts professor who
was on the flight, told ABC News that he initially thought the
female passenger was carrying a duffel bag.
"But it turns out it wasn't a duffel bag. We could smell it and
it was a pig on a leash," he said.
The woman sat in an empty seat next to him and tethered the pig -
- which he estimated weighed 50-70 pounds -- to the arm rest,
but the animal began walking back and forth, Skolnik said.
Emotional support animals are allowed on commercial flights
under U.S. Department of Transportation rules as long as they
are not disruptive, Masdival said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_27039860/pig-booted-
off-us-airways-flight-after-becoming?source=JBarTicker
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