Unfriendly skies to disabled veteran at Virginia Airport

Disabled Veteran Reportedly Claims Discrimination at Virginia Airport
Published October 03, 2011
FoxNews.com

A disabled Army veteran was reportedly not allowed to be aboard a plane last week in Virginia because she uses a walker.

Kathleen Wood told MyFoxBoston.com she was not allowed to board a shuttle at Reagan National Airport in Virginia last week as she returned to Walpole, Mass., from a vacation in Florida. Wood and her husband had to change flights in Virginia and had just 30 minutes to do so.

Wood, who suffers from lupus, also has a permanent back injury from a fall she took 12 years ago while serving in the Army. She tried to change gates along with the rest of the passengers, but a U.S. Airways employee refused to let her do so because of her walker.
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