Woman Sues Airline after Being Sprayed With Deicing Fluid While Boarding a Plane in Pennsylvania
A U.S. District Court judge, James M. Munley, ruled that a woman from Moscow who was sprayed with deicing fluid while boarding a plane at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International airport can sue the commuter airline (Mesa Airlines) and the company that deiced the plane. The victim claims that she sustained severe and permanent injuries to her eyes and neck and severe permanent shock to her nerves and nervous system. She was initially treated by attendants on the plane and flew to Philadelphia where she changed planes for a flight bound to Orlando, Florida. When the plane arrived in Orlando, she went to the hospital to seek more treatment and according to news sources, the victim claims she has ongoing problems with her vision and suffers from a lack of eye tearing.
At the Philadelphia airline and premises liability law firm of Reiff and Bily, we have been successfully prosecuting claims against airlines and airports for injuries that occur while traveling on airplanes, entering or exiting airplanes or while on premises associated with airplanes including but not limited to airports and jetways. As airline travel becomes more analogous to Greyhound bus travel, it seems that many airline agents, servants, and employees do not take customer safety as seriously as they once did often resulting in easily preventable injuries.
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