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Feds won’t punish United Airlines over passenger-dragging incident

A United Airlines jet taxis as another lands at San Francisco International Airport. (Louis Nastro/Reuters)
Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Airlines, listens to remarks as he testifies at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing in the aftermath of the recent forced removal of a passenger from a Chicago flight, in Washington, D.C., May 2, 2017. Kevin Lamarque Reuters
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September 6, 2017 - 3:26 pm
 

Federal officials have decided not to punish United Airlines over an infamous incident in which a passenger was dragged off an overcrowded plane.

The Transportation Department said it found no evidence that United violated the passenger’s civil rights and not enough evidence that it violated rules regarding bumping passengers.

A department lawyer told United about the decision in a May 12 letter, but neither the agency nor the airline made the matter public. An advocacy group, Flyers Rights, released the letter Wednesday after obtaining it through an open-records request.

On April 9, airport security officers in Chicago dragged 69-year-old David Dao from a United Express plane. The airline said it needed room for four employees who were traveling to staff a flight the following morning.

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