Bastrykin took control of the case of violation of the rights of a wheelchair user, who was not allowed to be transported by an airline at Moscow airport. “Sledcom”.
To rememberthat passenger, Ivan Vershok, said that the flight of the Pobeda airline from Sheremetyevo to the victim’s hometown of Chelyabinsk was not allowed.
According to the man’s claim, airline employees reported the problem to him at the last moment. Pobeda said that the battery capacity of his wheelchair was too high, so he could not get on the plane.
It was reported earlier that Vershok flew from Chelyabinsk to Moscow without such complications using the services of the same airline.
The investigation of the incident is carried out by the investigative authorities of the RF IC Transport Investigation Department, which began after the media coverage of a possible violation of the rights of a disabled passenger.
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee instructed the head of the department investigating the circumstances of the incident to report on the established circumstances and the progress of the inspection.