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"Broken Plastic" From Beverage, Model Sues American Airlines (Instagram image @shanachampagne_cs)
Actor and model Shana Wall sued American Airlines in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday. She claimed that she sustained injuries from a beverage which allegedly contained “broken plastic and shards”. As per New York Post report, the beverage was served to Wall on a flight. She was travelling from Queens, New York’s John F. Kennedy International airport to Rome.
According to the lawsuit filed by the model, her throat, esophagus, vocal chords and digestive system were injured when she gulped down the drink. It said she was confined to bed and unable to walk following the incident.
“American Airlines had a duty to provide beverages and food that was uncontaminated and fit for consumption… it created the dangerous, defective and unsafe condition on the airplane”, said Wall in her lawsuit on August 12.
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The actor is seeking damages, but the amount has not been revealed. The American Airlines has not commented on the lawsuit yet.
In the lawsuit, she said that due to her injuries she “became incapacitated from the duties of her occupation, sustaining wage and economic loss; has incurred, and will in the future continue to incur, expenses for the treatment of her injuries; she became obligated to expend monies for physicians’ services and other medical care and treatment”.
Shana Wall is from California. But now she lives in Meatpacking District in Manhattan. She works as a sommelier and contributes to the men’s magazine ‘Best Life’.
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In similar incidents, a passenger on an Air India flight from Bengaluru to San Francisco reported finding a blade-like piece of metal inside his in-flight meal in June this year. A traveller in South Korea also reported about finding a piece of glass in her mouth while drinking coffee.