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This Man Was Violently Dragged Out Of An Overbooked United Airlines Flight

Not cool, United Airlines!

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11 April 2017

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Man Was Violently Dragged Out Of An Overbooked United Airlines Flight

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Only two weeks after coming under the fire for barring 3 girls from boarding the plane because they were wearing leggings, United Airlines has gotten themselves in trouble again.

United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked and they had to get 4 passengers off the plane. The crew initially offered $400 for passengers to volunteer to get off the plane and take a flight the next day. When no one volunteered, they increased the bait to $800 and even then no one volunteered. Finally, they randomly selected 4 names from the system and asked them to leave the plane. Three people obliged and left the plane - but one man, a 69-year-old Chinese doctor, did not budge. So what did United Airlines do? They dragged him out so violently that his face was bleeding.

Watch the disturbing video, taken by, Audra D. Bridges, below.

As the video went viral, there was furious backlash against United Airlines.Thousands of tweets condemning the heinous act started to pour in.

The airline then released a statement regarding the incident - “After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation. Further details on the removed customer should be directed to authorities.”

This was followed by United Airlines CEO, Oscar Munoz's tweet on the debacle.

Even though the CEO apologised publicly on Twitter, details have emerged of an email that he sent out to all United Airlines staff defending the crew's actions, calling the passenger 'disruptive and belligerent' and praising his staff for going 'above and beyond'.

This has caused further backlash against the airline. Check out the entire email below.