United may break guitars but their rivals serve bad poultry

As it deals with fallout from its bankruptcy announcement, American Airlines is also facing the wrath of a family who claim their loved one died after eating a meal served by the carrier. The wife and daughter of the late Othon Cortes of Miami are suing the airline and LSG Sky Chefs - a German company that produces airline meals for more than 300 airlines - for more than $1 million, alleging he ate food contaminated with bacteria during a flight from Barcelona to New York earlier this year. The lawsuit states that after the plane landed at JFK and as Cortes and his wife waited for their next flight to Miami, Cortes felt "discomfort and pain that included sharp stomach cramps and sudden thirst and other clear outward manifestation of severe physical illness." During the flight to Miami, Cortes experienced nausea and shortness of breath, and became unresponsive after a cardiac event, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Norfolk, Virginia. He was pronounced dead on arrival. This is just horrible and if I were ever to fly on an American Airlines flight, I will not be eating their in-flight meals lest I eat some undercooked poultry. I'll probably just have some KFC at the airport terminal.