An Emotional Support Dog Bit a Passenger On a Delta Flight

From Redbook

A Delta passenger was bitten by an emotional support dog aboard a flight last weekend that was about to leave Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to reports from FOX 5.

“The gentleman’s face was completely bloody, blood in his eyes, cheeks, nose, his mouth, his shirt was covered in blood,” passenger Bridget Maddox-Peoples told FOX 5.

The passenger who was attacked was in the window seat, while the dog’s owner occupied the middle seat with his dog, which was an approximately 50-pound lab mix, Maddox-Peoples said.

“Prior to pushback of flight 1430, ATL-SAN, a passenger sustained a bite from another passenger’s emotional support dog,” Delta confirmed in a statement to FOX 5. “The customer who was bitten was removed from the flight to receive medical attention.” The victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition, according to the police report.

After the dog and his owner – a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, according to the police report – were removed from their original flight, local law enforcement cleared the dog and Delta re-accommodated the dog and its owner to fly on another flight with the dog in a kennel. The owner was not charged.

According to Delta’s website, the airline complies with the Air Carrier Access Act “by allowing customers traveling with emotional support animals or psychiatric service animals to travel without charge.” However, the animals must be trained to behave properly in public as a service animal and the passenger must provide documentation at check-in from a medical or mental health professional stating their need for “the emotional support or psychiatric service animal as an accommodation for air travel and/or for activity at the passenger’s destination.”

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