A United Airlines Passenger Says A Scorpion Stung Him During Flight

Well it looks like United Airlines just made another headline because of an unhappy passenger. Granted the passenger making the biggest headlines was right to be unhappy considering he was knocked out cold and dragged off the plane against his will.

Another passenger complained that he was stung by a scorpion during a flight from Texas to Canada.

According the United and media reports, Richard Bell was on board a United Flight heading from Houston to Calgary, Alberta this past weekend. He says the scorpion dropped on his head from the overhead storage bin and stung him under his fingernail.

“We were on the plane about an hour, having dinner, and then something fell on my head, so I grabbed it,” passenger Richard Bell told CBS in a Skype interview on its website.

According to Bell, another passenger who was Mexican said, “‘Hey, that’s a scorpion, they’re dangerous,’ … That’s when it stung.”

United spokeswoman Maddie King said in an email on Friday that United flight attendants helped the passenger after he was bitten “by what appeared to be a scorpion.” She also said that a physician on the ground assured the crew that “it was not a life-threatening matter.”

United is “reaching out to the customer to apologize and discuss the matter,” she said.

Dr. David Dao, a 69-year-old Vietnamese-American doctor, who suffered a concussion and broken nose when dragged from the plane on Sunday, will be suing according to his attorney.

Dao’s lawyers have filed an emergency request with an Illinois court to require the carrier to preserve video recordings and other evidence related to the incident.

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