AA Sued By Family Of PAX Who "Died Sweaty"
12-03-2011, 07:01 PM
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AA Sued By Family Of PAX Who "Died Sweaty"
What kind of tort is to die sweaty?
Did the chicken meal cause the heart attack?
How many other people ate the chicken but did not die of a heart attack?
How many other people ate the chicken but did not die at all?
Does one have to have a medical degree to get a job as a gate agent these days?
Did the chicken meal cause the heart attack?
How many other people ate the chicken but did not die of a heart attack?
How many other people ate the chicken but did not die at all?
Does one have to have a medical degree to get a job as a gate agent these days?
From Miami News Times:
It's been a rough week for American Airlines. Not only did the company file for bankruptcy protection, but a widow is claiming her husband died sweaty after eating the airplane chicken.
According to the suit, Miamian Othon Cortes and his wife Raquel were on a flight from Barcelona to New York's JFK Airport-- the first leg on their trip home-- when they were served a meal. Though it may seem like it these days, that is not the shocking part of the story.
Othon ordered the chicken meal, while Raquel ate an in-flight meal (fish, we're guessing) that didn't have chicken. In the JFK airport, Othon became pale, experienced "sharp stomach cramps" and was suddenly very thirsty.
Raquel says that as they boarded the flight to Miami, her husband's illness was "expressed and obvious" to AA staff, but they were allowed on the plane anyway. He went downhill on the plane to Miami, suffering from nauseousness and shortness of breath and, eventually, a heart attack.
The plane made an emergency landing in Norfolk, Virginia, where Othon was pronounced dead.
On the day before Thanksgiving in Miami court, Raquel and Othon's daughter, Sandra Cortes, filed suit against American Airlines and Sky Chefs, the airplane catering company that apparently served the fateful meal.
(Update: LSG Sky Chefs spokesperson David Margulies emailed us to say: "Our company did not cater the flight in question and will file a motion to have its name removed from the defendants in the case.")
They claim that the chicken was "poisoned" with the bacteria C. perfringens-- and that AA was negligent in allowing Othon to board the domestic flight, failing to provide medical attention, and waiting too long to pull an emergency landing.
American Airlines did not respond to Riptide's requests for comment.
American Airlines "Poisoned Food" Caused Passenger's Death, Claims Lawsuit UPDATED - Miami News - Riptide 2.0
It's been a rough week for American Airlines. Not only did the company file for bankruptcy protection, but a widow is claiming her husband died sweaty after eating the airplane chicken.
According to the suit, Miamian Othon Cortes and his wife Raquel were on a flight from Barcelona to New York's JFK Airport-- the first leg on their trip home-- when they were served a meal. Though it may seem like it these days, that is not the shocking part of the story.
Othon ordered the chicken meal, while Raquel ate an in-flight meal (fish, we're guessing) that didn't have chicken. In the JFK airport, Othon became pale, experienced "sharp stomach cramps" and was suddenly very thirsty.
Raquel says that as they boarded the flight to Miami, her husband's illness was "expressed and obvious" to AA staff, but they were allowed on the plane anyway. He went downhill on the plane to Miami, suffering from nauseousness and shortness of breath and, eventually, a heart attack.
The plane made an emergency landing in Norfolk, Virginia, where Othon was pronounced dead.
On the day before Thanksgiving in Miami court, Raquel and Othon's daughter, Sandra Cortes, filed suit against American Airlines and Sky Chefs, the airplane catering company that apparently served the fateful meal.
(Update: LSG Sky Chefs spokesperson David Margulies emailed us to say: "Our company did not cater the flight in question and will file a motion to have its name removed from the defendants in the case.")
They claim that the chicken was "poisoned" with the bacteria C. perfringens-- and that AA was negligent in allowing Othon to board the domestic flight, failing to provide medical attention, and waiting too long to pull an emergency landing.
American Airlines did not respond to Riptide's requests for comment.
American Airlines "Poisoned Food" Caused Passenger's Death, Claims Lawsuit UPDATED - Miami News - Riptide 2.0
12-04-2011, 02:27 AM
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So let me get this straight--the wife accompanies her husband on these flights, presumably sitting right next to him the entire time, and is certainly in the best position to observe her husband's condition, yet it is somehow AA's fault for failing to notice anything amiss? Just when you think someone has set the standard for no shame, a better competitor comes along.
12-04-2011, 08:02 AM
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If it truely was food poisoning, or such, I feel for them. But if it is just coincidental and the real reason he bought the farm was because years of bodily neglect, then they shouldn't get a dime. Just like dwight schrute said after he was blamed for stanley's heart attack: "ya, because I fed him butter and sugar for the last fifty years and forced him NOT to exercise."
Always someone elses fault.
Always someone elses fault.
12-04-2011, 08:05 AM
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Fish vs Chicken
The lawyer missed the target. They should be suing Paramount Pictures.
Why? Hear me out... In 1980, Paramount released Airplane! which obviously misled the plaintiff into believing that the chicken was much safer than the fish...
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Why? Hear me out... In 1980, Paramount released Airplane! which obviously misled the plaintiff into believing that the chicken was much safer than the fish...
Droopy
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