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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would have walked off the plane before allowing my dog to go into an overhead bin.  Common sense says there is not enough air for a puppy to breathe there.[/quote]
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The woman should have declined to fly.[/quote]

It was mid flight, dummies. Good luck walking off. [/quote]

The articles I read the dog spent the entire flight in the overhead compartment, which tends to suggest that it was put up there prior to take-off, not mid-flight.

But since the articles vary significantly in the details depending on which passengers the reporter spoke to, they're all a bit suspect.[/quote]

Agree.  Everything I have read suggests this happens when she boarded the plane and her approved dog carrier did not fit under the seat.  That is United's fault assuming they knew which seat she was in and approved the dog carrier.  Regardless, I still would have insisted on getting off the plane before putting my pet in the overhead bin, and fought my battle afterwards with the media and United, from the safety of the airport/my home, with a live puppy. [/quote]

If she was assigned a bulkhead seat, why didn't the FA ask another passenger to switch seats with her?  Heck, I love dogs and I would have been fine doing that.  In fact, if they had even wanted to put the carrier under the seat in front of me I would have been fine with that.

At the same time, I doubt that I would have recognized the danger in putting the dog in the overhead.  If the FA indicated that it was a safe thing to do, I would have trusted that it was a safe thing to do even if I wasn't too happy about it. I suppose she could have refused and gotten off the plane but then what?  How would taking another flight help her?  She would still have the same dog carrier and her children with her.  I'm sure that all she wanted to do was get the flight over with so that they could spend a nice vacation with her husband.

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