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From: <alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk>
> As a side issue to this I believe an American country singer had to
> check his guitar a while back on an American Airlines flight (normally
> he had been allowed to take it as cabin baggage). Said guitar was pretty
> valuable, and passengers watching out the aircraft windows witnessed it
> being tossed around the tarmac by baggage handlers. Needless to say it
> arrived at destination severely damaged. Singer then wrote a song about
> event, and I believe it ended up on YouTube, went viral and caused much
> embarrassment to AA who had refused to compensate him for the damage.
> Apparently the viral nature of the video caused AA to change their mind,
> and so another song was writ, but berating them for having to go this
> route to get just compensation.
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Almost right.  Dave Carroll is an east coast Canadian and was flying on
United Airlines.  He has written 3 songs about his experience and made
videos.  The story and funny videos are here:

http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/ubg/story/



Regards,

Gordon Williams

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