Man banned from United Airlines after allegedly urinating on passenger during flight to PH
A man was banned from flying United Airlines after he allegedly urinated on a fellow passenger during a trip from San Francisco to the Philippines.
SFGATE reported that Jerome Gutierrez, who hails from Hillsborough town, was traveling business class on UA Flight 189 from San Francisco International Airport to Manila on Dec. 27.
About four hours into the flight, a man, who wasn't identified, got up from his seat and began urinating on Gutierrez.
“He was asleep and buckled in and was surprised when he looked at the man and thought he was dreaming,” Gutierrez's stepdaughter Nicole Cornell told SFGATE. "Jerome realized he was soaked from his stomach down in that man’s urine.”
Cornell said flight attendants had asked Gutierrez “not to approach the man in fear that there would be a confrontation, and he would become violent.”
The crew then provided her stepfather with pajamas to wear after he was urinated on.
She lamented how the airlines responded to the situation.
“They put the needs of the airline before my stepdad’s health,” Cornell said. “I am so disgusted and in shock with how United Airlines handled this! That is a biohazard, and the plane should’ve turned around to address this issue.”
United Airlines spokesperson Anoushah Rasta confirmed to SFGATE the incident, describing it as "a passenger disturbance."
Rasta said they asked police to meet the aircraft when it arrived in Manila on the morning of Dec. 28.
“We have banned this passenger,” Rasta added.
Cornell said the man apologized to her parents and “begged them not to press charges.”
