Quick Glance: Disabled person pulls self off plane due to Air Canada's failure to provide wheelchair
- Air Canada apologizes for forcing a man with spastic cerebral palsy to pull himself off a plane without a wheelchair.
- Rodney Hodgins, 49, a hardware salesman from British Columbia who relies on a motorized wheelchair, flew to Las Vegas with his wife, Deanna, to celebrate their anniversary in August.
- Initially thinking it was a joke, the couple was shocked when the attendant repeated the request for Hodgins to pull himself off the plane alone.
- Hodgins had to use his upper body strength to pull himself past 12 rows of seats while his wife held his legs.
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