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Airline forces disabled war correspondent to crawl to bathroom on plane because it bans wheelchairs

Airline forces disabled war correspondent to crawl to bathroom on plane because it bans wheelchairs


This article was originally published on NY Post - World. You can read the original article HERE

A disabled war correspondent was forced to crawl to the bathroom on a recent London-bound flight because the airline bans wheelchairs, he said.

BBC journalist Frank Gardner, 63, shared the degrading ordeal on X Monday.

“Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve just had to crawl along the floor of this LOT Polish airline to get to the toilet during a flight back from Warsaw as ‘we don’t have onboard wheelchairs. It’s airline policy,’” Gardner said.

“If you’re disabled and you can’t walk this is just discriminatory,” added the veteran journo, who was shot and paralyzed by al Qaeda gunmen ​​in Saudi Arabia 20 years ago.

Frank Gardner was forced to crawl to the bathroom on a recent London-bound flight because the airline bans wheelchairs, he said. GC Images
The post was accompanied by a photo of Gardner’s legs on the floor of the plane. X / @FrankRGardner

The post was accompanied by a photo of Gardner’s legs on the floor of the plane.

“In fairness to the cabin crew, they were as helpful and apologetic as they could be. Not their fault, it’s the airline. Won’t be flying LOT again until they join the 21st century,” Gardner wrote in a follow-up post.

He also discussed the “inhumane” incident on “BBC Breakfast” Tuesday.

“Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve just had to crawl along the floor of this LOT Polish airline to get to the toilet during a flight back from Warsaw as ‘we don’t have onboard wheelchairs. It’s airline policy,’” Gardner said. AP

“It is outrageous in terms of air travel that LOT, the Polish airline I traveled on from Warsaw last night back to London, had no onboard aisle chair,” Gardner lamented.

“I said, ‘Well, how do you expect me to go to the loo?’ ‘Well, we can help you.’

“Well, not really, because if somebody drags you to the loo it’s too difficult. I had to crawl on my backside along the floor — which wasn’t particularly clean — of the aircraft,” he said.

“The cabin crew were very embarrassed and they were as helpful as they could — there was a really nice steward there who was fantastic. He was able to take my legs.

“But the point is, guys, it’s not difficult to have an onboard aisle chair. These things fold up to the size of a pram, if not smaller, and they fit into an overhead locker or into a cupboard.”

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