Air Canada does the right thing, only after being publicly shamed into it

"We seemed to have broken a boy's wheelchair.

Oh boo hoo hoo.

It's being talked about on Twitter...

Fix it! Fix it immediately!"

Pressure from Twitter users has made Air Canada fix a terminally ill boy's wheelchair after it was damaged during a flight, his family has said.

Appeals for help from the aunt of 10-year-old Tanner Bawn went viral on the micro-blogging website.

An airline spokesman said they had acted as soon as they had heard about it. It has now promised to send the boy to Disney World.

Tanner has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and is immobile without the chair.

Tanner Bawn's $15,000 (£9,300) wheelchair arrived at New York's La Guardia Airport in pieces, during a trip to the city for a charity run.

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