Notes tmz who broke the story: 'This is clearly a prelude to the lawsuit he said he'd file against the airline ... and now, most likely, the city of Chicago too'.
Demetrio, who indicated Dao is going to sue, said the industry has long "bullied" passengers by overbooking flights and then bumping people, and "it took something like this to get a conversation going".
With the federal government and a Senate committee looking into the dragging of a man off a United Express flight, the airline industry is beginning to speak up against any effort to bar them from overselling flights.
Dao 'currently has no access to them and believes that serious prejudice' will befall his case if the items are not safeguarded, the court papers state.
Shares in the airline's parent company United Continental Holdings fell 4% earlier on Tuesday, but following Mr Munoz's second statement they recovered much of the loss to settle 1.5% lower.
The head of United's parent company said at the time the airline was reaching out to the man to "resolve this situation".
Alderman Mike Zalewski said he did not know who will represent the airline before the Aviation Committee, but Munoz has been notified of the hearing scheduled for Thursday. This can never will never happen again on a United Airlines flight.
No passengers on the plane have mentioned that Dao did anything but refuse to leave the plane when ordered to do so. Video recorded by fellow passengers showed Dao on his back as security officers dragged him from the cabin of the parked plane.
Emirates Airline is using the backlash against United Airlines the company forcibly removed a passenger from a flight to play their own game of "gotcha".
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The timing of the test, coinciding with Pence's trip and a day after the military parade, would suggest deliberate defiance. The administration's immediate emphasis, they said, was to be on increasing pressure on Pyongyang with the help of Beijing.
Overbooked flights are quite common among carriers.
Meanwhile, details emerged about the passenger, who was identified as 69-year-old Kentucky physician David Dao.
Flight 3411 was sold out - passengers had boarded, and every seat was filled - when the airline discovered that it needed to find room for four crew members. When no one voluntarily came forward, United selected four passengers at random.
Munoz apologized on Tuesday, calling the episode "truly horrific", and pledged a full review by April 30.
The airline offered passengers up to $800 to give up their seats before it began choosing people to leave, according to passengers.
Other passengers on Flight 3411 are heard saying, "Please, my God", "What are you doing?"
Dr Dao was left bloodied after law enforcement officials dragged him off the plane as he refused to leave the flight bound for Louisville, Kentucky.
More than 600 million Chinese viewers had watched video of the incident by Wednesday morning on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.
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