TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man, who was heavily bleeding from his head after a hair transplant, and his wife were arrested early Tuesday morning after they refused to get off their flight in Miami, according to police.
The man, Eugenio Hernandez-Garnier, 27, boarded his American Airlines flight bound for Las Vegas with a bleeding forehead and a bloody bandage wrapped around his head. He said his doctor cleared him to fly and had paperwork confirming this, but flight attendants told him to deboard after seeing his bloody head.
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According to an arrest report, Hernandez-Garnier was asked to clean up the blood and replace his bandages but told flight attendants he did not have any clean bandages.
Due to his bloody head, the airline staff asked Hernandez-Garnier and his wife to exit the flight because they were “concerned about his medical condition and body fluid contamination,” the report said.
However, the couple refused to leave the plane.