A US citizen has settled a lawsuit with Australian-based airline Qantas after she claimed a screaming 3-year-old boy on the flight made her "stone cold deaf" thereby ruining her vacation to Australia and New Zealand in January 2009.
Jean Barnard, 67, said the boy, who was seated across the aisle, leaned over his armrest toward her and let out a scream so severe that blood erupted from her ears.
"The pain was so excruciating that I didn't even know I was deaf," she said. "I guess we are simply fortunate that my eardrum was exploding and I was swallowing blood. Had it not been for that, I would have dragged that kid out of his mother's arms and stomped him to death. Then we would have an 'international incident'."
Jean also claimed she suffered severe and permanent injuries, including sudden sensio-neural hearing loss and sought damages for physical and mental suffering, medical expenses and loss or impairment of earning capacity.
Her lawyer, Brian Lawler, argued Qantas was negligent because the plane's cabin and cockpit crew failed "to take all the necessary precautions to prevent the accident that resulted" in her "injury." Qantas argued that Jean had a hearing problem, prior to board the plane.
So, after a year, both parties have entered into a "confidential settlement."
Keep that in mind as you board those aircraft this summer.
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