The 250 Passengers Left Trapped On a United Airlines Plane For SIXTEEN HOURS Should Be Allowed To Sue For The Entire Company
SHIVERING United Airlines passengers were stuck on the tarmac for 16 hours in -29C weather as the plane door froze shut after an emergency landing in Canada. Among the 250 passengers, the chill, extended wait, and lack of food reportedly set tempers flaring. Sonjay Dutt, a professional wrestler en route to Hong Kong for a show, told CBC the temperatures on the plane quickly reached “uncomfortable levels”. The spare blankets the crew handed out didn’t appease the stranded passengers, and poor communication reportedly only inflamed tempers more.
Passengers had been told at the start that a rescue flight was inbound, Dutt said, to return them to Newark. Nothing arrived, and the next update didn’t come until five hours later. Food and water also ran low, until at the 10-hour mark, officials delivered Tim Hortons to starving travellers.
Passengers couldn’t even leave the craft because customs officers were not available overnight, United said. It was only after a wait of roughly 16 hours on Sunday that a rescue plane touched down.
I’m not up to speed on how much you should be able to sue for these days, but if you are trapped on an airplane on the tarmac for 16 hours in -20 degree Fahrenheit conditions you should be able to sue for the entire company. United Airlines should now be owned by these 250 passengers plain and simple, assuming they all survived. I had trouble walking home last night from the bus because it was so fucking cold and that was a ten minute walk. SIXTEEN HOURS!??!? I actually would not survive. I would have succumb to the cold like the people in the Day After Tomorrow did when they stepped outside to try and get out of NYC. I understand it’s not as cold on the plane as it was outside, but still I would just die.
If you’re on this plane how do you not break out? Custom officers were not available overnight to take care of passengers? Well I’d rather spend a night in jail and explain to a judge why I fled this plane for safer ground than stay trapped. The plane originally had to land because someone had a medical emergency and had to be taken to the hospital. You know what happens five hours into this standoff? You fake a medical emergency and get the hell out of there. Easy. How no one did that does not compute in my brain. If I’m delayed 30 mins on the tarmac I start to get antsy. One hour I’m freaking out. Ten hours I’m committing suicide. So like I said, every passenger on this plane has the right to sue for the entire United Airlines company, and that’s that.
This will most certainly be made into a movie with Liam Neeson, except there’s a killer on board and the plane was grounded for a reason that goes beyond just a medical emergency, it threatens the entire country.