Jumat, 02 Desember 2011

Family says in-flight meal killed traveler

The airline is known, the food unappetizing. But will he kill?

This requirement is in a suit recently filed by his wife and daughter of the late Othon Cortes v. American Airlines and the contractor who prepared the food on board. And the plaintiffs alleged that Cortes had died after eating a meal on a transatlantic flight States. In his complaint against the leaders of aircraft and Sky - a German company subcontracted to prepare food on flights American Airlines - Cortese argue that food is served on a flight from Barcelona, ​​Cortés, Spain and New York was contaminated with bacteria.

Cortez found seven placed in the court district of Miami, accuses U.S. leaders and the sky "is not properly maintain or prepare food," and claims that the company allowed to become a food contaminated perfringens Clostridium. CNN reports that the bacteria transmits one perfringens foodborne illness, most commonly in the United States, but is rarely fatal. Several deaths are reported each year from complications from dehydration and other related food poisoning.

After the flight landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Cortez, 73, began to feel "the pain and discomfort of stomach cramps, which included a strong and sudden thirst, and other vivid demonstration of the limits of serious physical illness," lawsuit alleges. As soon as he boarded his flight to Miami, Cortez nausea and shortness of breath and suffered a heart attack, which left unanswered. The plane made an emergency landing at Norfolk, Va., but Cortes was pronounced dead on arrival.

LSG Sky Chefs, a German company that makes airline food for more than 300 airlines, has asked to get the lawsuit dismissed. "Based on the allegations in the complaint, it is possible that Sky Chefs is the responsible party, because we do not meet a flight from Barcelona to the question," said spokeswoman Josephine Corsten.

The unusual part of the lawsuit alleges that American Airlines was at fault, to Cortez on board the second phase of its flight, because he was a compromise. As the Department of Transport says MSNBC, it is much more common for passengers injured to sue for the opposite reason:

"We are not aware of receiving any complaints of passengers, the airlines should be denied boarding because of illness, but it was allowed to fly", a spokesman Bill Mosley said the DOT MSNBC. Instead, he said, the agency is generally meant the passengers tried to board a plane, but can not afford to do so.

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