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Adam May

Disabled woman claims she was thrown from wheelchair after airline staff refused to help

A disabled woman claims she was thrown from her wheelchair after airline staff refused to help her, leaving her paralysed.

Gaby Assouline, 24, from Florida, US, who suffers from a muscle disease, says staff at Southwest Airlines refused to help her down a jet bridge in her wheelchair, court papers say.

She then suffered catastrophic injuries after falling over, it's understood, which have left her unable to speak.

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