He fixed his guitar for $1,200 but United refused to compensate him.

The track has a great hook:

“should have flown with someone else or gone by car — ’cause United breaks guitars.”

A spokeswoman for United says it is “in conversation” with Carroll “to make what happened right.”

United even asked Carroll for permission to use the video internally to amend its corporate culture.

The country music song –which Carroll decided to write rather than fume — recounts how he and other members of his Sons of Maxwell band, from Halifax, Nova Scotia were changing planes at O’Hare in Chicago when they heard another passenger exclaim about the baggage handlers, “My God, they’re throwing guitars out there.”

Carroll discovered the smashed base of his $3,500 Taylor acoustic guitar after he landed in Omaha, Neb.

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