Ural Airlines broke Paralympic athlete Nikolai Rudenko’s electric wheelchair twice; Rudenko has not received compensation for damaged goods for three months. In this respect reports “E1”.
The Paralympic athlete was flying from Moscow to Sochi; The disabled person in the first group put his wheelchair in his trunk. On the way to Sochi, the electric drive in the wheelchair was damaged, and on the way back to Moscow it was crushed by suitcases, so that the metal frame on it broke and the man could not open the wheelchair and sit down on his own. .
“I was taken from the plane to my wheelchair using a special chair. Everything inside was torn, torn, it was impossible to sit on it because everything was shaking, the frame was bent. I told them they deprived me of my legs. It looks like a large amount of baggage has been loaded onto it,” says Rudenko.
The passenger wrote a statement about the damaged luggage and demanded to pay for the purchase of a new wheelchair, which cost about one hundred thousand rubles, but airline representatives demanded from him a receipt indicating the cost of the damaged wheelchair.
Since the stroller was issued through the Social Security Fund, the disabled person did not have any documents. After the incident was made public, Ural Airlines announced that they were negotiating with the passenger to compensate for the financial damage.
As Nikolai Rudenko noted, he cannot use a regular wheelchair without electric drive – the man has a genetic disease that reduces muscle tone. Nikolai works for a large Russian company, is involved in Paralympic bocce (this is a team game played with a ball), is left without a wheelchair, has lost the opportunity to live a full life; The Paralympic athlete cannot even leave school and home.
A suitcase previously lost by an airline to create four years later.
Source: Gazeta
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