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To: Savant who wrote (4051)12/2/2000 8:41:29 AM
From: Apex  Read Replies (1) of 4201
 
...remember the flying pig...well, the porker is back in the news

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Thursday November 30 9:50 AM ET
FAA Clears Airline in Flying Pig
Debacle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aviation regulators said on Wednesday
that US Airways did nothing wrong in allowing a 300-pound pet pig
to fly first class last month from Philadelphia to Seattle.

The porker named ``Charlotte,'' owned by a woman with a heart
condition who says the animal's presence helps relieve stress, ran
squealing through the Boeing 757's cabin on landing, discharging
feces as it went.

But FAA (news - web sites)'s Philadelphia flight standards office
decided the pig complied with Department of Transportation policy
on allowing individuals with a disability to travel with their service
animals.

FAA has no recommendations on how to carry pigs in the future.
``The carriers will have to cross that sty when they come to it,'' said
FAA spokesman Jim Peters.

``US Airways and its employees acted in a reasonable thoughtful
manner based on a legitimate request to transport a qualified
individual with a disability and her service animal,'' Peters said.

Airlines needed only credible verbal assurances that the animal was
a legitimate service animal. FAA said it was implied the animal was
trained and would be under control. ``Basically we accept the word
of the passenger,'' said Peters.

But US Airways spokesman David Castelveter said future requests
for service animal travel would be carefully evaluated.

``An incident like this will not happen again,'' he said. ``Any decision
you make regarding bringing an animal on board, you would have to
consider the safety factors.''

But would US Airways accept a pig in the future?

``You'd have to evaluate that based upon its merit,'' Castelveter said.
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