Exclusive: Alone and disoriented, 75-year-old Marcos Humberto Vindel Osorio wandered out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport and onto a busy highway, where he was fatally struck by ‘multiple vehicles,’ according to his family
Unfortunately, dementia isn’t a consistent thing. You can have episodes that seem extreme despite them being infrequent, or potentially only happening under certain conditions. Regardless, the airline said they were going to assist him. They did not. He had family waiting to receive him at the airport. There was apparently no assistance provided at all or attempt to notify his family of that. He didn’t somehow overpower someone and escape, they just failed to provide promised and legally required assistance.
I did read the part where they repeatedly claimed he had minor dementia and not wandering-into-traffic levels of dementia, did you read that part?
Unfortunately, dementia isn’t a consistent thing. You can have episodes that seem extreme despite them being infrequent, or potentially only happening under certain conditions. Regardless, the airline said they were going to assist him. They did not. He had family waiting to receive him at the airport. There was apparently no assistance provided at all or attempt to notify his family of that. He didn’t somehow overpower someone and escape, they just failed to provide promised and legally required assistance.