Vietnamese join angry chorus
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OUTRAGE spread to Vietnam yesterday over United Airlines’ handling of a passenger dragged from his seat after it emerged that the 69-year-old US doctor was Vietnamese by birth.
Although United Airlines has no direct flights to Vietnam, there were widespread calls for a boycott after David Dao was dragged off the plane by airport security on Sunday.
Anger in Vietnam grew after it was reported Dao’s origins were not in China, as many had assumed.
Vietnamese also fumed at allegations over Dao’s past as irrelevant and possibly racist.
“Watching this makes my blood boil, I’ll never fly United Airlines,” commented Anh Trang Khuya on Facebook.
Nguyen Khac Huy wrote: “Boycott United!!! This is excessive! Let’s be loving and united, Vietnamese people!”
There was no immediate comment from the government or state media.
Kentucky’s medical board website shows that a David Dao graduated in 1974 in Ho Chi Minh City — then known as Saigon and the capital of US-backed South Vietnam before its defeat and the reunification of Vietnam a year later.
Around that time, Dao left for the United States, according to US media and Vietnamese websites.
Vietnamese media said that Dao was also a songwriter and crooner of soulful ballads — including one about the memory of rain falling in Saigon.
Reports in US media of an offense that had led to Dao losing his medical licence in 2003 were dismissed in Vietnam as a probable smear campaign.
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