Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has vowed that his department will investigate after a recent viral video clip showed airline baggage handlers dropping a wheelchair down a slide and allowing it to crash to the ground.
The video clip in question was originally captured and posted to the video-sharing app TikTok on Sunday by user Haeley Dyrdahl, with a caption that read, “Dang, after I saw them do this and laugh with the first two wheelchairs, I had to get it on film. That is not what I‘d call ’handling with care' for someone’s mobility device.” The TikTok user referenced American Airlines with a hashtag in the caption and included a Miami, Florida, location tag.
