The household of a California man who allegedly choked to loss of life after being denied a vegetarian meal on a Qatar Airways flight is suing the airline for wrongful loss of life.
Asoka Jayaweera, 85, a vegetarian who died in August 2023, after allegedly being compelled to “ear around” meat served to him on a flight from Los Angeles to Doha, Qatar, in accordance with a wrongful loss of life lawsuit filed by his son, Surya.
He alleges that his father was compelled to eat the carnivorous meal after being knowledgeable by a cabin crew member that there have been no vegetarian choices regardless of requesting the meal in superior.
The lawsuit seeks damages for negligence and wrongful loss of life in addition to protection for his legal charges.
Jayaweera, in accordance with the lawsuit, was allegedly served the meal with meat about two and a half hours into the 15-hour flight.
The son disputes the declare in regards to the plane’s location impacting the flexibility to land early, arguing more may have been performed to save lots of his life.
Jayaweera was utilizing an oxygen masks for the rest of the flight, although his saturation ranges remained at a “critical” degree till he finally misplaced consciousness.
Eight hours later, upon touchdown in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was taken to the hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless from aspiration pneumonia, a lung an infection brought on by improperly inhaling food or liquid.
