A paralyzed man ran out of his wheelchair when he returned home in his vacation in Hawaii, because American Airlines did not carry him on the plane, he said.
Sam Shivers, who is paralyzed from the waist down, registered in his wheelchair at the American Airlines door in Hawaii at the end of his one -week vacation with his wife last month, Kgun 9 reported.
But when Tuscon’s couple landed in Phoenix, the wheelchair was nowhere.
“At that time, I almost want to vomit,” Shivers told The Outlet. “I thought:” Oh my God, what am I going to do? “
“Without my wheelchair, it’s as if I didn’t have any leg, I can’t help,” he said.
Instead, American Airlines somehow sent the wheelchair to Los Angeles.
Shivers and his wife do not think it is a mistake.
They noticed that another wheelchair and stroller were not loaded on the plane either. Shivers said he would have happily changed his luggage for the wheelchair, if the Totrace leg was a problem.
Once in Phoenix, the couple had to get out how to get home. They decided to use the transport chair of the airport to wear chills on their return home, where he had a second wheelchair.
American Airlines returned the wheelchair to the couple’s house about eight hours later.
The airline did not immediately return a request for comments.
Shivers says he has filed a complaint with the Department of Transportation.
Last October, the airline was 11 million for the United States government, which said “Maldas managed thousands of wheelchairs damaging them or delaying their return”, among other violations in the treatment of the airline of the passengers with disabilities.
In 2023, American Airlines supposedly lost a disabled prosthetic leg of Missouri with a value of $ 26000, and refused to return the return.