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No care in the air? Airline traveler who is quadriplegic shares struggle, demands change

No care in the air? Airline traveler who is quadriplegic shares struggle, demands change
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A US airline broke an activist's wheelchair. Her death months later amplified calls for change

A US airline broke an activist's wheelchair. Her death months later amplified calls for change
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Airlines keep losing and damaging wheelchairs at an alarming rate


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(NEW YORK) Thirty years ago Engracia Figueroa, 51, was hit by a Bay Area Rapid Transit train that left her with a spinal cord injury and amputated leg. She now calls her wheelchair an “extension of her body” granting her freedom and independence.
But last week Figueroa says she was “re-disabled” when her $30,000 wheelchair was mangled in the cargo hold of a United flight.
“I was heartbroken,” she said when she first saw what she described as her “completely contorted” chair after her flight to Los Angeles. “I just thought, all of the independence that I fought and strived for and successfully survived for soon to be 30 years by the minute, it’s stripped away, and I was completely disabled and traumatized, as well as hurt and exhausted.” ....

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