A disabled Florida woman claims Southwest Airlines staffers refused to aid her in going down a jet bridge in a wheelchair — and that she suffered catastrophic injuries after falling over, court papers state.
The Broward County suit asserts that Gaby Assouline, 24, who suffers from a muscle disease, was traveling from South Florida to Denver in February when she asked for someone to push her wheelchair down the corridor.
The suit contends that a Southwest supervisor at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport declined her request and that she was forced to negotiate the jet bridge on her own.
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