'Crossing my fingers for a denied boarding flight :),' the agency's acting administrator said in a newly public email about United's settlement.
Daniel Elwell, acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, arrives to testify before a Senate Commerce subcommittee oversight hearing on aviation safety after two fatal Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashes since October on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019.Acting FAA administrator Daniel Elwell sent a joking email to a United executive amid the airline's response to its major public-relations crisis in 2017.
"Crossing my fingers for a denied boarding flight. 😁," Daniel Elwell said in a newly public email published by ProPublica on Wednesday. The email was in response to United's settlement after a highly publicized incident in which video of airport security officers dragging a passenger off a plane in Chicago went viral.at Chicago's O'Hare airport is still haunting the carrier.
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