JUDGE: PRESERVE UNITED COCKPIT RECORDING

A Cook County judge on Monday ordered the preservation of a United Airlines cockpit recording and other evidence related to the forced removal of a Kentucky man from a flight last week that spurred global uproar.

Attorneys for the passenger removed from the Chicago-toLouisville flight have not yet filed a lawsuit. But the lawyers for the passenger, David Dao, requested two days after the controversial incident that a judge order United Airlines and the Chicago Department of Aviation to preserve several pieces of evidence that could potentially be used in litigation.

Among the items that Dao’s attorneys requested be retained are surveillance videos depicting the boarding of passengers on the United Express flight, the cockpit recording, passenger list for the flight, employee and crew list, incident reports filed after the encounter and personnel files for the Chicago Department of Aviation officers who removed Dao from the plane.