230kg passenger deemed too fat to fly left stranded

A Frenchman who weighs 230kg and was deemed too heavy to fly on a jet has arrived in New York to head home by ship.

Thu, 14 Nov, 2013 - 00:00

Kevin Chenais, 22, and his parents arrived at Penn Station in New York by train from Chicago. They will stay at a hotel in Brooklyn until they catch the Queen Mary 2 for England.

Chenais, 22, has a hormone imbalance and came to the US from France in 2012 for obesity treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Chicago.

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