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[quote=Anonymous]With this woman being a prominent activist, I have to wonder if part of the issue is her embarrassment over being the cause of the plane re-routing. Why not turn it into a lawsuit?

A pilot has the responsibility of every single passenger on the plane sitting squarely on their shoulders. This includes the teen and her parents, and every other passenger.

They cannot assess which way a scenario will go. If autistic child HAD had a meltdown and injuries happened, this pilot and United would be lauded for their quick attention in getting the plane safely to the ground.

But it didn't happen, and now they're being called into question.

A plane is not a car. You can't suddenly pull over to the side of the road to see if a meltdown is going to happen, and swerve back into the lane if it doesn't. The pilot made a decision to re-route based on the information he got, which is, from my understanding, that this child would hurt herself or her family if she didn't get something.

A pilot has no idea if that something will actually solve the problem. What if that escalates the issue, rather than solves it? He just has the responsibility of that passenger to address, which means diverting was also to protect her. The fact that the meltdown didn't happen is moot. There aren't do-overs in flying. The safest, quickest and allowable course of action (taking into consideration that you can't just land at any old airport or take any old flight path for kicks), was to divert. They don't have oodles of time to wait for a resolution, if the best option is readily available at that moment.

People are getting too focused on the sandwich issue, and not the deeper POTENTIAL safety issue. I guarantee they wouldn't do that if the sandwich hadn't been the answer. [/quote]

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