A viral TikTok video exposed how airports humiliate disabled passengers – here’s how to fix it

In the clip, some poor traveller’s wheelchair is thrown down a chute at a US airport, writes James Moore. But now Rights on Flights is proposing a bill to stop this kind of shocking incident from ever happening again

A passenger saw the wheelcair being dropped down a chute at an airport in the United States (TikTok)

A viral Tiktok has exposed yet another way in which disabled passengers are mistreated at airports – and this time it’s a scandal that’s usually hidden, even to victims.

In the clip, some poor traveller’s wheelchair is thrown down a chute at a US airport. It careens its way down towards the tarmac, picking up speed until it crashes into a barrier at the bottom before launching into a brief end-over-end flight before coming to a halt.

A baggage handler, unaware he is being filmed, simply dumps the battered equipment – which, let us remember, serves as someone’s legs – onto a cart.