Plane Crazy: Blind woman abandoned on airplane




A blind woman from Vancouver Island is not sure she'll ever fly alone again after she was forgotten by flight attendants and locked in a deserted plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.


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Jessica Cabot, of Courtenay, B.C., was on a United Airlines flight from Vancouver to Jacksonville, Fla., April 7 to join her fiancé when the plane made a scheduled stop in Chicago before dawn.

She was then supposed to be guided to her connecting flight to Florida.

The 18-year-old was born blind and this was her third time flying by herself, so she thought she was familiar with some of the routines.

"I was instructed by the flight attendant to wait until everybody else got off the plane," said Cabot, 18, in an interview with CBC News from Jacksonville.

"That's what they tell me every time so I didn't think anything of it."



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