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• It says the Jan. 5 incident resulted physical injuries, including a concussion, bruises, difficulty breathing and bleeding ears, as well as emotional trauma..
• Alaska Airlines values it at $1,500.“This nightmare experience has caused economic, physical and ongoing emotional consequences that have understandably deeply affected our clients,” Daniel Laurence, a lawyer with the Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore firm, said in a statement..
• 1 acknowledging our mistake,” The Washington Post reported.The incident rekindled scrutiny of Boeing, which manufactured planes involved in two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, and prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ground some Boeing 737 Max 9 planes as it investigates..
• Boeing declined to comment.1/2Alaska Airlines, which offered passengers an apology, a full refund for the aborted flight and $1,500 “to assist with any inconveniences,” is not named as a defendant in the case.What’s the cost of passenger trauma?.
• It also alleges that many of the oxygen masks on the plane seemed inoperable..
• He pointed to what he called “Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun’s forthright admission that this terrifying event was caused by Boeing’s ‘mistake’” as the impetus for the proposed class-action suit..