"My God, how wrong is this?": Amputee left on plane at Manchester Airport had to be helped off by 'embarrassed' pilot

A disabled passenger who was abandoned on a plane at Manchester Airport had to be rescued by the pilot after assistance staff failed to help him off the flight.

David Judd was left stranded on the empty aircraft after flying in from Spain on June 18. The 54-year-old, who needs a wheelchair when he travels, was waiting for around 30 minutes before it became clear no one was coming to help.

Voice actor David, who lives in Wakefield, says he has booked assistance at Manchester Airport many times before without any issues. But he claims problems arose as soon as he arrived at Terminal 2 ahead of his holiday on June 11.

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“We normally go to Leeds Bradford Airport but we wanted an earlier flight,” the dad-of-three told the Manchester Evening News. “I took my prosthetic leg off an hour before the flight and put a compression sock on to stop the swelling. When we got there, we had to wait, which is very unusual as normally you’re assisted immediately.

“We were there for around 35 to 40 minutes just waiting for someone to come and help us. A staff member turned up and took our suitcases from us and took it to a long queue.

“When we got to the security area, he left. The guy at security wanted me to walk through the magnetic thing and said, ‘Can’t you just put your leg on?’. He could see I was in a wheelchair. My wife was left to carry all the bags and my leg which is about 8lbs.”

David says there were more problems when he and his wife Amanda returned from their one-week trip to Almería. After landing at Manchester Airport, the couple were left waiting for assistance that never came – eventually having to be helped by the pilot.

“The pilot came out