The Chinese professor was thrown off the plane by United Airlines, and United Airlines even threw a rake
A retired pharmacy Professor born in Hong Kong and her husband were asked to leave the plane after patting the crew on the elbow due to seat problems, the Sing Tao Daily reported. The victim criticized that United Airlines failed to learn a lesson and improve its service after dragging the Vietnamese Chinese physician passenger David Dao off the plane the year before last.
According to Forbes website, the 68 year old female victim Qu Jiesi and her 66 year old husband wentyes revealed during an interview that after checking in at Washington Dulles International Airport at 7 p.m. on June 24 this year, they were assigned 21a and 21C seats, flight number ua1448, and were scheduled to fly to Los Angeles at 10:15 p.m.
The couple took their seats according to the boarding pass data, but about 20 minutes later, another passenger showed that the seat was also the boarding pass of 21a. A flight attendant tried to solve the situation, took the couple's boarding pass and walked to the rear of the cabin, but denied that he had taken the couple's boarding pass when turning back.
Qu Jiesi said that the flight attendants discarded the boarding pass in the back row, and other passengers found it and returned it to its owner. After the couple regained their boarding pass, they tried to inform the steward, but the steward ignored the call. Qu Jiesi then reached out and patted his elbow for attention while the steward passed by. Unexpectedly, this action angered the other party.
Qu Jiesi recalled that at that time, passengers with duplicate seats had been arranged for other seats. She just wanted to tell the steward that they had found their boarding pass, but the other party reacted greatly and screamed, 'don't touch me! You're out! I'll get you out of the plane '. Qu Jiesi described that the flight attendants and boarding staff yelled, which made her feel insulted.
United Airlines sent another flight attendant and three ground crew to deal with it and asked Qu Jies and her husband to leave the plane, but they refused. The two sides were deadlocked for 40 minutes. The flight attendant finally broadcast 'plane accident' and asked all passengers to get off the plane. The couple reluctantly left the plane in order to let other passengers continue their journey. The airline provided accommodation for the night and arranged for the couple to fly the next day.
United Airlines later informed the couple that Qu Jiesi was aggressive and threatening, so it included her in the internal observation list and threatened to ban her from taking the company's flights for life. Qu Jiesi refuted that United Airlines blamed the passengers, exaggerated the tap action as a "physical threat", and questioned that United Airlines violated the transportation contract.
The airline issued a statement on September 13 local time, emphasizing that it had contacted customers and staff involved in the incident in July.
Qu Jiesi was born in Hong Kong, China and served as a professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University. She and her husband were still engaged in scientific research after retirement. They ended their visit to Washington before the incident.