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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sara Odeen-Isbister

Disabled passenger forced to CRAWL off plane because a wheelchair wasn't available

A disabled woman ended up crawling off a plane after the airline she flew with failed to provide an aisle wheelchair on landing.

Natalie Curtis had used an aisle wheelchair to get to her seat when she boarded a Jetstar flight in Townsville, Australia but when she landed in Bangkok, Thailand, there was none available.

She decided the only way she could get off the plane was to crawl done the aisle - an experience she described as "extremely humiliating".

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