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Gaby Assouline dies after being ‘thrown’ from Southwest Airlines walkway | New York Post
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0:33Now PlayingA disabled Florida woman who claimed to have been paralyzed after falling down a plane walkway because Southwest Airlines staffers refused to help her has died.
Gaby Assouline, 25, who suffered from a genetic muscle disease, was using a wheelchair while traveling to Denver from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in February 2022 when she and her mother asked an airline employee for help, according to an ongoing lawsuit.
Assouline and her family assert that her request was refused and that she was forced to make her way down the jet bridge on her own.
She was soon “thrown” from the wheelchair and landed on her head, causing catastrophic injuries that left her paralyzed from the neck down, the suit says.
After 11 bedridden months, Assouline passed away Sunday, her family said on a GoFundMe page.
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