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Old Mar 13, 2018 | 3:56 pm
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Originally Posted by docbert
Not really. They've learnt from previous incidents that if they do anything other than accept responsibility it'll blow up even worse on the twitters and the facebooks.

It's better to accept responsibility (even if they weren't (the only ones) at fault), than to deny it and have it blow up even worse.
It doesn’t seem that the facts are in question. People are just making theoretical excuses for United. I’m waiting for someone to say maybe the dog was hit by a micrometeor.
Originally Posted by mozilla
I'll refrain from judging, there are too many question marks.

* Was the FA fully aware that an animal was in the bag when she asked the passenger to store it in the overhead bin? The passenger(s) say so, but I'd like to hear the other side of the story. Was the crew in a rush to take off? Was it the end of a long day for them?
* Why was the animal not checked on during the flight? I'm not pointing fingers here, there could be good reasons for that: turbulence, sitting at the window next to one or two older/disabled/POS pax, something else.

So if it were the end of a long day it’s okay to kill a passenger’s dog?

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