Passenger dragged off United flight to file lawsuit against airline

<p>Unsettling video of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly removed from a flight has the internet in an uproar.</p><p>Several passengers on board the Louisville-bound plane Sunday night caught the incident on camera. The footage shows three men wearing security uniforms speaking with a passenger, then dragging him by his arms and legs across the aisle.</p><p>One passenger told&nbsp;<a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2017/04/10/video-shows-man-forcibly-removed-united-flight-chicago-louisville/100274374/" target="_blank">The Louisville Courier-Journal</a>&nbsp;they were told their flight was overbooked and that four people needed to give up their seats for stand-by United employees.</p><p><div id="fb-root"></div> <script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/audra.dickerson/videos/vb.12932532/10104378182069960/?type=2&amp;theater" data-width="552"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/audra.dickerson/videos/10104378182069960/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p>Please share this video. We are on this flight. United airlines overbooked the flight. They randomly selected people to...</p>Posted by <a href="#" role="button">Audra D. Bridges</a> on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/audra.dickerson/videos/10104378182069960/">Sunday, April 9, 2017</a></blockquote></div></p><p>Volunteers were reportedly offered money and an overnight hotel stay, but no one stepped up. That&#39;s when a manager said a computer would randomly select who would be taken off the aircraft.</p><p>When the man in the video was chosen, witnesses said he got very upset and refused to leave. So security was called in to remove him from the plane.</p><p><b>SEE MORE: <a href="http://www.newsy.com/stories/girls-in-leggings-told-to-change-before-taking-united-flight/">3 Girls In Leggings Told To Change Before Boarding United Flight</a></b></p><p>On Monday, United&#39;s CEO&nbsp;<a href="http://newsroom.united.com/news-releases?item=124753" target="_blank">apologized for the incident</a>, saying, &quot;This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. ... Our team is moving with a sense of urgency to work with the authorities and conduct our own detailed review of what happened.&quot;</p><p>Most airlines overbook flights in order to compensate for passengers who don&#39;t show up.</p><p>And&nbsp;<a href="https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights" target="_blank">it&#39;s not illegal</a>&nbsp;for them to involuntarily bump a passenger off a flight. But airlines are required to give that passenger a written statement describing their rights and explaining how the airline decides who does and doesn&#39;t get on an oversold flight.</p><hr><b>Trending stories at <a href="http://www.newsy.com">Newsy.com</a></b><ul class="inline-related-links"><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/stories/ryan-zinke-helped-clean-the-vietnam-veterans-memorial/">Why The Interior Secretary Helped Clean The Vietnam Veterans Memorial</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/stories/new-york-to-offer-tuition-free-public-college/">Public College In New York Just Became Way Cheaper For Some Students</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/stories/tomi-lahren-sues-theblaze-for-wrongful-termination/">Tomi Lahren&#039;s Suing TheBlaze, Partly Over Her Facebook Page</a></li></ul>