Two security officers involved in the infamous United Airlines dragging incident in April have been fired.
It was quietly revealed in a report published Tuesday by the Chicago inspector general, Joseph Ferguson.
Two other Chicago Department of Aviation officers remain suspended.
The report stated ’employees made misleading statements and deliberately removed material facts from their reports.’
Chicago Department of Aviation dismissed the officer ‘who improperly escalated the incident’ and also a sergeant who deliberately withheld facts from a report.
Both are appealing their dismissals.
The April 13 incident resulted in passenger David Dao, 69 being violently dragged off the plane, causing an international uproar and a PR disaster for United.
The airline has since settled with Dao for an undisclosed sum and made sweeping changes to its overbooking policy.
