What Flying Is Like for Passengers Who Use Wheelchairs

Travel|Embarrassing, Uncomfortable and Risky: What Flying Is Like for Passengers Who Use Wheelchairs

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For passengers who use wheelchairs, air travel in the United States can be an embarrassing, uncomfortable and perilous prospect.

Among the risks are personal injury, the loss of expensive equipment and a lack of accessible bathrooms and of federally mandated services.

To better understand the obstacles faced by wheelchair users, The Times sent a reporter and a photographer to document one man’s domestic trip. Here’s what they saw.

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By Amanda Morris

Photographs by Scott McIntyre

Aug. 8, 2022

Charles Brown has always loved flying. He loves the steady roar of the engine beneath him as the plane rises high above a shrinking ground, turning houses into small blocks of color [...]