A dog injured a child onboard a Southwest Airlines flight, the latest incident in the controversy over allowing emotional-support animals on planes.
It happened Wednesday night while passengers were boarding a Southwest flight from Phoenix to Portland. A spokesman for the airline said the dog's teeth scraped the girl's forehead as she approached the animal, causing a minor injury.
Southwest said paramedics examined the girl, who was later cleared to continue on the flight. The dog and its owner remained in Phoenix while the plane left about 20 minutes behind schedule. Neither the girl nor the dog's handler was named.
Passenger Todd Rice tweeted about the incident and said the girl tried to pet the dog, ABC 15 reported.
"@SouthwestAir flight 1904 allows a support dog on the plane, bites kid, paramedics now on plane. Why are dogs on the plane?! Never again will I fly SWA," Rice said in his tweet, which appears to have been deleted.
In another tweet, which also appears to have been deleted, Rice urged Southwest to rewrite its safety policy, according to the Arizona Republic.
Source :- oregonlive
It happened Wednesday night while passengers were boarding a Southwest flight from Phoenix to Portland. A spokesman for the airline said the dog's teeth scraped the girl's forehead as she approached the animal, causing a minor injury.
Southwest said paramedics examined the girl, who was later cleared to continue on the flight. The dog and its owner remained in Phoenix while the plane left about 20 minutes behind schedule. Neither the girl nor the dog's handler was named.
Passenger Todd Rice tweeted about the incident and said the girl tried to pet the dog, ABC 15 reported.
"@SouthwestAir flight 1904 allows a support dog on the plane, bites kid, paramedics now on plane. Why are dogs on the plane?! Never again will I fly SWA," Rice said in his tweet, which appears to have been deleted.
In another tweet, which also appears to have been deleted, Rice urged Southwest to rewrite its safety policy, according to the Arizona Republic.
Source :- oregonlive
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