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   WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) -- This was a pig that truly could not   
   fly.   
      
   The pig was ordered off a U.S. Airways plane at Bradley   
   International Airport in Connecticut on Wednesday after   
   crewmembers determined the animal had become disruptive, said   
   Laura Masvidal, a spokeswoman for U.S. Airways parent American   
   Airlines said Friday.   
      
   The pig had been brought aboard the flight by a passenger as an   
   emotional support animal, Masvidal said. She said both the pig   
   and its owner left the aircraft before it took off. She had no   
   other details and did not immediately know where the flight was   
   headed.   
      
   Jonathan Skolnik, a University of Massachusetts professor who   
   was on the flight, told ABC News that he initially thought the   
   female passenger was carrying a duffel bag.   
      
   "But it turns out it wasn't a duffel bag. We could smell it and   
   it was a pig on a leash," he said.   
      
   The woman sat in an empty seat next to him and tethered the pig -   
   - which he estimated weighed 50-70 pounds -- to the arm rest,   
   but the animal began walking back and forth, Skolnik said.   
      
   Emotional support animals are allowed on commercial flights   
   under U.S. Department of Transportation rules as long as they   
   are not disruptive, Masdival said.   
      
   http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_27039860/pig-booted-   
   off-us-airways-flight-after-becoming?source=JBarTicker   
      
           
      
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