A college student with disabilities from Long Island is stuck in an old manual wheelchair after her multi-thousand dollar custom-made motorized chair went missing when she landed at JFK Airport on May 4. McLoganTV reports.
"It's honestly my independence. I've been in a wheelchair full time since I was 13," said Victoria O'Brien. When she got off the plane at JFK, her $6,000 motorized, programmed wheelchair was nowhere to be found.
"It's not really safe for me to be in it anyway, but at the current moment that's all I have," she said. Her mother says American Airlines personnel told her they must wait 30 days before the wheelchair is officially declared missing.
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