A group of Los Angeles Unified employees are the latest people to sue Delta Air Lines over dumping of fuel by one of its airliners in January.
The plaintiffs in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed, Monday, are Victor Sanchez, a principal; Rose Amah, an assistant principal; LAUSD police officers Donovan Avant, Jorge Flores, Samuel Jimenez, Thomas Langston and Roger Lee; teacher Fabiola Mejia; and two minor students.
The plaintiffs seek unspecified damages.
A Delta representative has said that the pilots dumped fuel to reduce the plane’s weight before a successful emergency return landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The Delta Boeing 777 jet had been headed to Shanghai.
Soon after takeoff on Jan. 14, the pilots shut down one of the jumbo jet’s two engines because of a compressor stall. Minutes later, the plane is accused of dumping roughly 15,000 gallons of aviation fuel at an altitude of about 2,000 feet over a wide area, including South Gate and Cudahy.
The LAUSD police officers were dispatched to various schools amid the reports of the falling fuel, including 93rd Street Elementary School, where Avant was sent, the suit states.
“These young children asked (Avant) if they were going to die and if they had experienced a terrorist attack,” the suit says.
Avant suffers from flashbacks of the children he assisted coughing and crying and he remains concerned about the long-term health effects of the exposure to the jet fuel, causing him continuing emotional and psychological harm, the suit states.
Sanchez, the principal of 93rd Street School, was “shocked at the jet fuel raining down on the campus,” the suit says.
Sanchez had direct contact with the fuel and breathed in droplets, causing him to subsequently have joint swelling, headaches, nausea and lack of sleep, according to the complaint. The “traumatic experience” left Sanchez emotionally exhausted and he took a five-week leave of absence and started therapy to manage extreme stress, it says.
Several other lawsuits have been filed by other plaintiffs against Delta stemming from the fuel dump.
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