Korean Air vows faithful response to US lawsuit over in-flight death

Korean Air said Friday it will faithfully respond to legal procedures in the United States, where a lawsuit was filed in Virginia on behalf of the estate of Porscha Tynisha Brown, who died at age 33 in March 2024 during a flight from Washington to Incheon operated by the airline. Burns Charest, the law firm representing the complainants, claimed her death resulted from a series of critical failures by Korean Air flight personnel. According to the complaint, Brown experienced sudden respiratory distress about 12 hours into the flight, telling her traveling companions and crew members, "I can't breathe," before collapsing. "Although flight attendants provided what they claimed to be an oxygen mask, after the flight, eyewitnesses discovered the mask was never connected to an oxygen supply, leaving Ms. Brown without the life-saving oxygen she urgently needed," the complaint reads. The law firm said flight personnel stood by and watched as untrained passengers were unable to operate the machine, even after the aircraft's automated external defibrillator indicated that a shock was necessary to