航空公司赶自闭症少女下飞机惹众怒_时事

航空公司赶自闭症少女下飞机惹众怒

5月5日，美国联合航空公司的一个航班从休斯顿飞往波特兰。飞行员在得知15岁的自闭症乘客朱丽叶·比格尔(Juliette Beegle)可能出现行为问题后有些担忧，所以在盐湖城备降。朱丽叶的母亲唐娜·比格尔(DonnaBeegle)对ABC资讯频道说，这件事的起因是朱丽叶在登机前拒绝进食，所以比格尔夫人开始担心女儿血糖降低，变得焦躁。

Though usually reserved for first-class passengers, Ms. Beegle asked a flight attendant if shemight be able to purchase a hot meal for her daughter, but the flight attendant refused andoffered a sandwich instead.

虽然该航班通常只为头等舱乘客提供热餐，但是比格尔夫人问乘务员自己能否给女儿买一份热餐，却遭到拒绝，只得到一份三明治。

Ms. Beegle said she explained that her daughter had special needs and would only eat hot foodand warned the attendant that Juliette could have “a meltdown and begin “crying and trying toscratch in frustration, if she did not eat.

比格尔夫人说，她向乘务员解释女儿有特殊需求，只吃热餐，并告知乘务员，如果朱丽叶不进餐，可能会“崩溃，开始“大哭，并因沮丧又抓又挠。

When Juliette’s crying and vocal outbursts — not unusual for children with autism — didincrease, she was brought a hot meal, which she ate and which settled her down, Ms. Beeglesaid.