There are too many different angles in this story to know how to feel about it. A grandfather rushing home to see his dying grandson one last time, the TSA agents who didn’t care, the man who caused the child’s injuries by throwing him across the room, or the pilot of an airplane who delayed it for 12 minutes to accommodate the grandfather:
The airline hasn’t publicly identified the pilot.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins