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Super VC-10
I was thinking of the Equality Act, 2010 and how it prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. Deafness and blindness are both disabilities under the act.
You can discriminate providing that there is a legal reason for doing so and I would have thought that having a passenger who might not be able to evacuate an aircraft if needed would be both dangerous and illegal.
15 Discrimination arising from disability
(1) A person (A) discriminates against a disabled person (B) if—
(a) A treats B unfavourably because of something arising in consequence of B's disability, and
(b) A cannot show that the treatment is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.