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Blood is on his mouth, chin and cheek as he said: "I want to go home". "Just kill me. Kill me".

United Flight 3411, operated by Republic Airways, was scheduled to depart Chicago's O'Hare International Airport at 5:40 p.m. local time Sunday, bound for Louisville International Airport. For Chicago, it is another public relations nightmare, adding to its reputation as a city unable to curb a crime wave in some neighborhoods.

The airline needed additional seating for workers to prevent a flight in Louisville from being cancelled. No one volunteered, so the airline generated a list of four names to be removed from the flight and re-accommodated, per by the airline's contract of carriage. Airlines often overbook flights, to compensate for "no-shows" who've already paid for seats but don't make the flight.

In the United debacle, the passenger is receiving treatment and the airline has apologized in a statement, saying "no one should ever be mistreated this way".

Police then proceeded to rip the man from his seat before dragging him from the aircraft in front of horrified passengers. "What are you doing?"

You should always take a look at the fine print of your ticket, where there's relevant information for when you're traveling. And, "Busted his lip".

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"We nearly felt like we were being taken hostage", Tyler Bridges said. You can't do anything as a traveller. First, the airline tries to entice you off with a voucher, money, but this time around there were no takers. On Monday, Munoz told employees that "there are lessons we can learn from this experience", but he said employees "followed established procedures".

After a three-hour delay the flight took off without the man aboard, Mr Bridges said.

In late March, two teenage girls dressed in leggings were denied boarding on a United flight from Denver to Minneapolis because their form-fitting trousers did not conform with the dress code for employees or family members using free passes.

If you're bumped off a plane, an airline must have a written statement for you explaining your compensation rights.

The United Airlines Contract of Carriage permits the airline carrier to deny boarding to a passenger if the flight is overbooked. Twitter - along with other Western websites such as Facebook and Google - is blocked on the mainland.

The horrifying footage quickly drew the ire of the Twittersphere and United Airlines has been the focus of the Internet's fury since.

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