huskernumerouno Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 HONOLULU - A 16-year-old girl who caught a cold during a school trip to New York was kicked off her flight home because she was coughing. ADVERTISEMENT Rachel Collier was removed from the Continental Airlines plane as it was about to leave Newark, N.J., for Honolulu earlier this week. She had fallen asleep after boarding the plane with about three dozen classmates and woke up coughing and gasping for breath as it was about to take off. "Everyone was looking at me," she said. "I couldn't talk because I lost my voice coughing so much. I was panicking." The flight attendants gave her water, and a doctor on the flight said she would be OK to make the 10-hour flight. But the captain returned the aircraft to the gate to drop off the girl and one of her teachers. Rachel said she started crying when the captain told her to leave. She and the teacher finally made it home the next day. Teacher Maile Kawamura, a chaperone for the spring break trip to New York and Washington, D.C., said she was shocked. The two didn't know what to do or where to stay, she said. They finally found accommodations in New York and bought clothes and toiletries. Continental said in a statement that Collier was coughing "uncontrollably" on the plane Tuesday and that "the captain felt he was acting in the best interest of the passenger and other passengers on the flight." Rachel's mother, Stephanie Collier, said Continental has agreed to reimburse her daughter's expenses incurred during the extra day, including the cost of the hotel. "I felt it was really extreme for a coughing fit," she said. "We've all had coughing fits." Quote Link to comment
BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The captain was a prick about it since the doctor said she was good to make the flight. Quote Link to comment
huskernumerouno Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 Thats what I was thinking. Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Heck, if they kick her off for that, I'd imagine Nicole has never even seen the inside of an airplane. They see her tripping (literally) down the causeway and they have to be wondering what damage she'll do to the plane itself... Quote Link to comment
Nicole Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 LOL nice AR!! For your information just last month I took a plane to Texas, so I've been on an airplane a 4 times, yes I did trip going up and down tunnel thing but other than that it was all good, but I flew United...not Continental Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 LOL nice AR!! For your information just last month I took a plane to Texas, so I've been on an airplane a 4 times, yes I did trip going up and down tunnel thing but other than that it was all good, but I flew United...not Continental Exuse me, but did you report those two incidents of tripping to the Huskerboard "Nicole Tumble Watch"? Quote Link to comment
cmb23 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Definitely don't cough on a plane....if a feminine looking man sitting next to you asks you to turn your head while you are doing it. Quote Link to comment
rawhide Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 ahhh the good old days flying United. Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 LOL nice AR!! For your information just last month I took a plane to Texas, so I've been on an airplane a 4 times, yes I did trip going up and down tunnel thing but other than that it was all good, but I flew United...not Continental Exuse me, but did you report those two incidents of tripping to the Huskerboard "Nicole Tumble Watch"? I knew she was lying!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
Nicole Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 THAT WAS BEFORE THE actual COUNT DOWN! how does that count?? Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 THAT WAS BEFORE THE actual COUNT DOWN! how does that count?? Picky, picky, picky... Quote Link to comment
huskernumerouno Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 it is all right to be picky but on this one I think they are right. Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 This is a little extreme for coughing!!! What an a$$hole!!! Quote Link to comment
Nicole Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 I'm getting ready to leave to go catch a plane for Colorado....hopefully they dont see me trip so i can get in on time. Quote Link to comment
HuskerJosh82 Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 The captain was a prick about it since the doctor said she was good to make the flight. Quote Link to comment
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