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CLOSE A potentially record-breaking giant rabbit died on a United flight from London to Chicago. USA TODAY 
  
 Steve Bruere, president of Peoples Co., and his friends bought Simon, a big bunny that was found dead in Chicago following a flight from London. (Photo: contributed) 
  
 The owners of a 3-foot giant rabbit that died last month following a United Airlines flight from London are demanding an independent investigation into the death and calling on the airline to change its procedures for transporting animals. 
  
 Simon, a Continental Giant rabbit, was purchased by an Iowa-based ownership group with hopes that he could win the Iowa State Fair's biggest rabbit contest in August and be used to help raise money for the fair and its Blue Ribbon Foundation. 
  
 But the giant rabbit was found dead following a United flight from London to Chicago. 
  
 Des Moines trial attorney Guy Cook announced at a press conference on Monday that the owners are demanding an independent investigation into Simon's death. Cook cited news reports based on anonymous sourcing that said Simon may have been inadvertently locked in a freezer before he was scheduled to board a connecting flight to Kansas City. That claim that was reported in the Daily Mail tabloid and other media outlets. 
  
 A United spokesperson called the claim "completely false" in an email. 
  
 United also had the rabbit was cremated following its death without the permission of the owners, making an autopsy to determine what exactly happened impossible, Cook said. That action by the airline was tantamount to "destroying evidence" in the case, he said. 
  
 "It's circumstantial proof that there was something wrong here that they cremated the remains of Simon without the consent of the ownership group or the breeder who provided the rabbit to the owners," Cook said. "United Airlines has essentially done nothing to demonstrate objectively what actually happened here. They've had scant interaction with the ownership group." 
  
 Cook said that the attorneys are asking United to provide video from a closed-circuit camera inside the facility where Simon was held that could provide more clues as to what happened. Simon was expected to surpass his father in length and take "world's largest rabbit" title himself within "a few short months," Cook said. 
  
 In an email, United spokesman Charles Hobart said that Simon arrived in Chicago at 10:25 a.m. and was seen moving in his crate about a half-hour later. A short time later, an employee found the rabbit motionless and determined he had died. At the time, Simon was being kept in a PetSafe kennel facility kept at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. 
  
 "The assertion that Simon died in a freezer is completely false," he said. 
  
 Hobart also directed a reporter to the website of British rabbit breeder Annette Edwards, who owns Simon's four-foot long father, Darius, the current world's biggest rabbit. Edwards wrote in a recent statement, "United Airlines has been in regular contact with me regarding the sad death of Simon the Rabbit and that the matter has been resolved to my satisfaction." 
  
 At the press conference, Cook said a retired pilot has brought forward multiple other possible situations that could have caused the death, including that pilots may not have been told an animal was loaded on the plane and therefore not activated a higher temperature selection for the bulk cargo compartment. 
  
 The ownership group is demanding the airline to pay for the purchase price of the rabbit, shipping costs and the "economic loss" caused by the rabbit's death. The owners anticipated that Simon's status as world's largest rabbit could be used as a fundraising tool to help the state fair, Cook said. 
  
 The demand letter gives United seven days to respond before a lawsuit is filed. The ownership group is also asking the airline to re-evaluate its procedure of flying animals in the cargo holds of its airplanes. 
  
 After Simon's death Edwards initially told the Sun newspaper that Simon had a check-up with a vet three hours before the April 19 flight and was “fit as a fiddle.” 
  
 “Something very strange has happened and I want to know what,” Edwards told the newspaper. “I’ve sent rabbits all around the world and nothing like this has happened before.” 
  
 The rabbit’s death added to the airlines’ headaches last month: United was widely criticized after video was made public of a 69-year-old passenger being dragged off a flight at Chicago O’Hare International to make room for a crew member. 
  
 PETA has criticized United, saying the rabbit's death "is not unique." It said "more than 300 animals have died in cargo holds since 2005, and many more have been been injured or lost." 
  
 "We think that the importance of this case and his death goes beyond the life of one single giant rabbit, but reflects a practice by United that needs to be changed," Cook said. 
  
 The rabbit's three main owners were retired Wells Fargo executive Mark Oman, People's Co. president Steve Breure and Benning Financial partner Duke Reichardt. 
  
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 12:45 p.m. 
  
 A United Airlines spokesman says it has reached a satisfactory resolution with the breeder in Britain of a giant rabbit that died after flying from the United Kingdom to Chicago. 
  
 The airline declined to comment Monday on a threat of legal action from the new owners of Simon the rabbit, who live in Iowa. 
  
 An attorney for the owners says the new owners are troubled that he was cremated without a necropsy, or post-mortem examination, soon after his death April 20. Attorney Guy Cook says he sent a letter to United Airlines last week but hasn't heard back. 
  
 United spokesman Charles Hobart says United reached a resolution with breeder Annette Edwards, who was United's customer and is based in Worcestershire, England. He says she declined United's offer of a necropsy. 
  
 Hobart declined to comment on the letter sent by Cook. 
  
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 10:50 a.m. 
  
 The owners of a giant rabbit that died after flying from the United Kingdom to Chicago want to know more about the animal's death and an explanation of why he was so quickly cremated. 
  
 Attorney Guy Cook said Monday that the owners of the rabbit, named Simon, are troubled that he was cremated without an autopsy, soon after his death April 20. Cook says he sent a letter to United Airlines last week but hasn't heard back. 
  
 Simon had been expected to grow to become the world's largest rabbit. Cook says the buyers had planned to enter Simon at the Iowa State Fair and display him at later events to raise money for the fair. 
  
 The owners are seeking the costs of buying and transporting the rabbit and future earnings. |||||
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When it comes to the case of Simon, the dead giant rabbit, United Airlines is down one headache but faces a second. A rep for the airline says it has reached a satisfactory resolution with the British breeder of the giant rabbit, which died after flying from the United Kingdom to Chicago last month. The rep adds that Annette Edwards declined United's offer of a necropsy, or postmortem examination, reports the AP. That lack of necropsy isn't sitting so well with the three Iowa businessmen who had purchased the rabbit. The Des Moines Register reports their Iowa-based "ownership group" had bought Simon with the intention of entering him in the Iowa State Fair's biggest rabbit competition and later raising funds for the fair and its associated foundation by displaying him. Attorney Guy Cook said Monday that the owners are troubled that Simon was cremated without a necropsy soon after his death April 20. "It's circumstantial proof that there was something wrong here that they cremated the remains of Simon without the consent of the ownership group," he said. Cook added he sent a letter to United Airlines last week but hasn't heard back. The owners—retired Wells Fargo exec Mark Oman, People's Co. president Steve Breure, and Duke Reichardt of Benning Financial—are seeking the costs of buying and transporting the rabbit and future earnings.