"I haven't got a clue who's to blame, but it's certainly very weird when Simon was so healthy", said Annette Edwards, a breeder who sold the bunny.
Edwards, a former Playboy model, said she has shipped rabbits all around the world and that nothing like this had ever happened.
"The safety and wellbeing of all the animals that travel with us is of the utmost importance to United Airlines and our PetSafe team", the statement read. David Dao, a 69-year-old doctor, had refused to give up his seat to crew members, and he had a bloodied face after aviation police officers summoned by United staff members dragged him off the plane.
Bryan Bergdale, a farmland investment manager, said he bought the rabbit for his boss, who had hoped to show it at the Iowa State Fair.
"He had that exam three hours before he left me to go to Heathrow", Edwards told The Washington Post in a phone interview.
Without enough volunteers to take later flights, airlines are forced to involuntarily "bump" passengers off overbooked flights.
"We won't know the cause of death, because we offered to perform a necropsy free of charge - that's standard procedure - but the customer didn't want us to perform a necropsy, and we understand", he said.
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"This is a turning point for all of us at United and it signals a culture shift toward becoming a better, more customer-focused airline", he said.
His lawyers have filed an emergency request with an IL court to make sure the airline preserves evidence such as videos, cockpit voice recordings, passenger and crew lists and other materials related to United Flight 3411. "Something very unusual has happened and I want to know what", breeder Annette Edwards, from Worcestershire in central England, told British newspaper The Sun.
In the days following the incident, United pledged to never again summon law enforcement to forcibly remove a paying customer from an aircraft, except for security reasons - a promise they reiterated in today's report.
In a statement, United added: "We were saddened to hear this news".
Following a United incident that involved what could have been the world's largest rabbit, PETA had a few choice words for the major carrier.
Dao suffered a concussion and two missing teeth. Of those, United was responsible for the most of any USA airline: 14. "Our customers should be at the center of everything we do and these changes are just the beginning of how we will earn back their trust".
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