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A family is suing American Airlines (AA) after a fatal tragedy aboard a plane on May 18.
Othon Cortes, 73, was travelling from Barcelona to New York City when he began to feel discomfort. His family alleges this was due to the food AA fed him. They say it contained the poison bacteria, Clostridium perfingens. They are also suing the catering company, Sky Chefs, but they deny having catered that flight.
Cortes, when he exited in the New York airport, felt "sharp stomach cramps and sudden thirst." His widow, Raquel, and daughter, Sandra, claim he clearly looked ill and they claim AA should have called for medical attention before allowing him to board the second leg of the flight.
On the second leg, from New York City to Miami, Cortes suffered, "nausea, shortness of breath and a 'cardiac event'." The plane made an emergency landing at Norfolk, VA, where he was pronounced dead.
Cortes's family is suing for $1 million in damages for dangerously and improperly checking and administering food and for not attending to Cortes during the transfer in New York City.
This lawsuit comes at an inopportune time for the airline, which had just filed for bankruptcy the week this suit was filed.
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