Well we have got some really stupid people here today… first let me say as an amputee (just one arm thought.) Just because your too damm stupid to figurer out how to get about with out your limb(s)
Does not mean I or other are too your too damm stupid to figurer out how to get about with out our limb(s) particularly when these people have been doing it there whole lives
First the story does not state she ask the airline for any help or special accommodation … if she did the airline could decline to let her fly on the grounds that they didn’t have the extra help or special accommodation
But if didn’t ask and/or need any …
Note: it does not say if she had and aid with her or wore prosthetics or if she still had partial limbs (Common in Thalidomide I.E. the “flipper limbs”) because that is a big difference for abilities
But as some one who spent many hours at UCLA medical center prosthetics dept. as a kid where I was used as a "training model" for the prosthetics techs(I’m a very difficult prosthetics fit as I’m a very short “BE”…2in. below elbow… but I don’t wear one an I don’t need it)…. I seen just about ever variation on “limblessness” and quite frankly where there a will there a way… and if someone was that way at birth or young when it happen… you adapt to the point it becomes a not issue
PS… Several British WW2 fighter pilot fought in combat as amputee (with prosthetics) several were missing an arm and one (who was a Squadron leader and top ace) missing both legs (he had lost his legs prewar )
Bottom line... If they didn't ask for you help and didn't need there help and the airline just absolutely (u)assumed(/u) there needed there help...then...
It has been noted here that this story is 'incomplete'. However, if you are wearing a prosthetic; I do not think you are considered or counted as simply 'limbless'.
If she arrived without them; as it 'appears' she did; and as so mentioned by observant airline employee per complaint;
. . . then it is a more than reasonable assumption that this woman was a 'lawsuit'; looking for a reason.