United Airlines Faces Questions Over Death of Giant Rabbit

[deminks]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/united-airlines-rabbit.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Less than three weeks after a passenger was dragged off a United Airlines flight at the Chicago airport, the carrier found itself facing another public relations fiasco on Wednesday after a three-foot-long rabbit died on a flight from Britain.

The continental giant rabbit, Simon, which was bound for O’Hare, had a veterinary checkup three hours before takeoff from Heathrow Airport near London and was “fit as a fiddle,” his breeder said. The animal was traveling to a buyer in the United States.

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According to the most recent figures from the United States Department of Transportation, released in February, 35 animals died in transit across 17 airlines in the United States in 2015.

United Airlines accounted for 14 of those deaths. The carrier transported nearly 100,000 animals over that period, a further nine of which were reported as injured.

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OK, so, CEO blames rabbit for own death in 3..2..1...

[randome]

1. He pulled a DB Cooper -took all the carrots and jumped.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. But chose the wrong door and got sucked into an engine.

Actually, I shouldn't make light of this. In the past I have shipped my dog as cargo and he always came through like a champ, but it always worried me that something might happen to him.

I guess we were lucky.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. My dad worked for American Airlines for 35 years.

After all the stories he told me I would never check my dog.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. The dog I'm referring to isn't the one in my avatar, but a Boston I had before him.....

and he flew probably 4 times in the late 80's/early 90's, and always as cargo - I wasn't on the plane.

CH. Mr. Beau Tye;


(Nice 'stache, eh? Where, oh where did that body go!)


The one in my avatar (Mr. Beau Brummel 'BB') also flew several times, but by then they had modified the rules to allow smaller dogs in those carry on kennels, and he did that, in the cabin, between my feet probably 6 times.

Mr. BB;



If I had lost either of those dogs while flying I would have been utterly devastated

[Tanuki]

3. The rabbit's flight "was bound for O'Hare"?

[Brother Buzz]

4. United's Boeing 767 is pregnant

[MFM008]

5. the poor rabbit

committed HARE-E-Kari.
( see what I did there?)

[randome]

7. Questions such as:

"Jill, why is there a dead rabbit in B3?"

"Strange, why did he check in as 'Ted Wilson'?

"Is there a vet on board?"

"You expect me to clean that up?"

"Look. Under the body. Is that a Keebler Elf?"

"Why didn't he fasten his seatbelt when I told him to?"

"Can I have his frequent flyer miles?"

"Anything in his luggage to identify next of kin?"

"His phone log says the last person he called was someone named Kris Kringle. Anyone know anything about that?"

"Three martinis on a 45 minute flight?"

"Why didn't anyone notice he'd hung himself with the oxygen cord?"

"What do you think, is that real fur or a dye job?"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]