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Not surrendering a seat on an overbooked flight prompted an irritating scene on a United Airlines flight on Sunday night.

A few travelers on United flight 3411 from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville, Kentucky, caught video as a man was dragged off the plane by specialists after he evidently declined to take off.

Audra Bridges posted a 31-second clasp of the occurrence on Facebook, which indicated three men in dark shirts and dark baseball tops yanking a moderately aged man out of a seat. The men dragged him down the passageway, while somebody shouting could be heard out of sight.

"Everybody was stunned and dismayed," Bridges told the Courier-Journal. "There were a few youngsters on the flight too that were exceptionally vexed."



The episode happened after United requested that travellers surrender their seats willfully for remuneration. No one took the carrier up on the offer, aircraft representative Charlie Hobart told CNN.

Joined CEO Oscar Munoz reacted to the episode on Twitter on Monday evening.

"This is an annoying occasion to every one of us here at United. I apologise for having to re-oblige these clients," Munoz said.

"Our group is moving with a feeling of direness to work with the specialists and direct our own particular itemised audit of what happened. We are additionally connecting with this traveller to talk specifically to him and further address and resolve this circumstance,"

Joined then utilised a framework to figure out which travellers would leave the flight.

"The framework set up empowers us to investigate to what extent a client should remain at an aeroplane terminal, for instance," Hobart said. "We likewise keep unaccompanied minors, we attempt to keep families together, we take a lot of elements into thought."

Joined representatives disclosed the circumstance to the man a few times, however despite everything he cannot, Hobart said. Experts came in and persuasively expelled him from the plane.

A few people took to Twitter to condemn how United dealt with the circumstance, while others didn't know what to do.