Wheelchair athlete banned from plane ‘because he couldn’t walk’
1st May 2010
Richie Powell, 39, was booked on a flight to Scotland to take part in a wheelchair race.
But as he tried to board the plane at Bristol airport he was told: “You can only fly if you can walk up the aircraft steps.”
- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably at the hands of somebody in the TSA.