“Watching this makes my blood boil, I’ll never fly United Airlines,” Anh Trang Khuya wrote on Facebook, Vietnam’s most popular social media platform, according to Reuters. Play Video 0:46 United Airlines passenger forcibly removed from overbooked flight – videoA petition started by a Chinese student demanding an investigation into the case has so far garnered more than 170,000 signatures. Thanks to United Airlines, is flying while Asian something to fear? “Barbaric behaviour!” exclaimed state broadcaster CCTV in a social media post that incorrectly identified Dao as a Chinese. Such attitudes were apparent in some of the responses on Chinese social media, Palmer added.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2017 08:40 UTC