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Quadriplegic Man Bedbound For 19 Hours After Airline Refused To Load $60K Wheelchair Quadriplegic Man Bedbound For 19 Hours After Airline Refused To Load $60K Wheelchair
Quadriplegic Man Bedbound For 19 Hours After Airline Refused To Load $60K Wheelchair A quadriplegic man was bedbound for 19 hours after the airline broke his wheelchair in Boston and then refused to load it onto a plane in Charlotte, NC, he and his New Jersey wife said on social media. Matt Wetherbee, 34, tweeted from a bed during a layover at Charlotte Douglas International Airport that American's crew at Boston Logan International Airport had damaged his chair.  Then, the crew in Charlotte refused to load it onto the plane he was boarding due to a lack of space. After my chair was damaged twice on 2 separate @AmericanAir flights, grounds crew in Charlotte refused to …

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