ATLANTA (AP) — An airline passenger was bitten repeatedly in the face by a dog that was allowed on the plane to provide emotional support to another passenger.
According to an Atlanta police report, Marlin Jackson of Daphne, Alabama, was taken off the plane and to a hospital Sunday in stable condition with “severe injury to the face due to several dog bites.”
Passenger Bridget Maddox-Peoples told Fox 5 that the victim was sitting by the window and the dog’s owner was in the middle seat with his dog.
“The gentleman’s face was completely bloody, blood in his eyes, cheeks, nose, his mouth, his shirt was covered in blood,” she said.
Jackson was bitten by a Labrador retriever-pointer mix brought on the Delta Air Lines flight to San Diego by Ronald Mundy Jr., a Marine Corps member from Mills River, North Carolina.
Another passenger told Fox 5 that they spotted Mundy weeping at the gate while he held his dog, repeatedly saying, “I know they’re going to put him down.”
Two phone numbers listed for Mundy were out of service.
Mundy was not charged. Delta said he took a later flight, with the dog traveling in a kennel.
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