GATINEAU, Que. – The Canadian Transportation Agency says it’s issued a $97,500 penalty to ********** for violating the Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations.

The penalty of $97,500 is for several violations of the regulations.

The agency says that on August 30, ********** failed to assist a wheelchair user to disembark its plane.

The passenger, who has spastic cerebral palsy and can’t move his legs, was forced to disembark on his own.

As well, the CTA says ********** failed to ensure that its personnel periodically checked in on the passenger while he was waiting in the terminal.

********** acknowledged in ******** that it violated Canadian disability regulations, and apologized to a British Columbia man who was forced to drag himself off a flight in ********* this summer.