Passenger sues airline for making him so drunk he beat up his wife
19 December 2008Yoichi Shimamoto says United Airlines was negligent for allowing him to continue drinking to the point of inebriation during a flight from Osaka, Japan to San Francisco.
Shimamoto claims it was the multiple glasses of Burgundy, served at 20 minute intervals, which led him to strike his wife Ayisha, while the couple were walking through customs in December 2006.
In a lawsuit filed at the US District Court in Tampa, Florida, he claims the wine left him so drunk that “‘he could not manage himself'”.
source: Telegraph.co.uk
