日本一家航空公司居然讓殘疾乘客爬着上飛機!

Japan's Vanilla Air has apologised after a wheelchair user was forced to crawl up a set of stairs to the plane.

在一名坐輪椅的乘客被迫“爬梯上機”事件發生之後，日本香草航空已就此作出道歉。

Hideto Kijima had boarded with the help of friends on his outbound flight.

木島英登之前是在其朋友的幫助下登機並飛往國外的。

But on the return leg from the island of Amami, airline employees told him that for safety reasons, he would not be Allowed to board if he could not climb the stairs without assistance.

但是在從奄美島返回登機時，航空公司的員工因安全顧慮，告訴木島英登，如果他無法在無人協助的情況下爬上飛機舷梯，他就不允許登機。

In response, Mr Kijima left his wheelchair and pulled himself up the stairs with his arms.

於是，木島英登只能離開輪椅，並靠自己的胳膊來爬上登機梯。

Mr Kijima is an experienced traveller, and head of the Japan Accessible Tourist Center. He says he has been to more than 200 airports in 158 countries since he was paralysed from the waist down in a school rugby accident in 1990.

木島英登是一位經驗豐富的旅行者，也是Japan Accessible Tourist Center的負責人。在1990年，他在學校橄欖球運動中腰部受傷癱瘓，此後，他去過全球158個國家的200多個機場。

He said that although travel had occasionally been difficult, he had never been told he could not board a plane.

他表示，儘管旅行中有時會碰到一些困難，但他從沒有被告知過他不允許登機。

Vanilla Air, a budget airline subsidiary of All Nippon Airways, has apologised for the incident and announced new measures to aid wheelchair users at the airport.

全日空旗下低成本航空公司香草航空已爲此事進行道歉，並宣佈新措施來幫助機場的輪椅使用者。

"We're sorry that we caused him that hardship," a company spokesman told AFP news agency.

該公司的一名發言人向法新社透露：“爲木島英登先生帶來的不便，我們深表歉意。”