Drunk Delta passenger who was served 11 drinks sexually assaulted mother and teenage daughter on 9-hour ‘nightmare’ flight: lawsuit

A person on a Delta Air Strains flight downed at the very least 10 vodkas and a glass of wine earlier than groping a 16-year-old woman and her mom, in line with a lawsuit.

Flight attendants on the practically nine-hour nightmare flight out of JFK Airport “blatantly ignored” the pair’s pleas for assist — together with a requirement to cease giving the abuser booze — in line with courtroom papers filed Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Courtroom.

Staffers then allegedly let the jailbait-loving drunkard quietly stroll off the aircraft when it landed in Athens, Greece, with out notifying native police of an alleged sexual assault.

“What occurred to them throughout a flight was not only a nightmare, it was utterly preventable,” stated the household’s lawyer, Evan Brustein, of the July 26, 2022 journey.

Flight employees allegedly served the person vodka although he was noticeably drunk.

He “frightened” the teenager by placing his palms on her again, making “obscene gestures,” screaming and demanding she inform him her tackle and different private info, the household claims. He additionally advised the mother he “didn’t care” the daughter was a minor.

When the mother complained, a flight attendant blew her off, telling her to “be affected person.”

The unidentified man, who “mumbled” that he was from Connecticut, gave the mom and daughter a quick reprieve by heading to the toilet to “loudly” puke earlier than returning with a glass of wine, they contend.

Fairly than transfer the person to a special seat, a flight attendant allegedly advised him to “cease speaking” to the victims, prompting an enraged, profanity-laced outburst from the drunk, who referred to as mother and her child “f–king bitches.”

The teenager started to have a panic assault and put her head down in her mother’s lap, solely to “really feel the intoxicated Delta passenger’s clammy fingers beneath her shirt climbing up her again … fingering her bra strap and shifting over her physique,” in line with the $2 million lawsuit.

She jumped out of her seat crying, and the drunk passenger then allegedly reached over and put his hand up the mom’s leg earlier than she screamed at him to cease and likewise jumped out of her seat.

The mom demanded a Delta flight attendant contact police however was advised to “relax and give it some thought.” The victims then switched seats for the remainder of the flight.

When the aircraft landed, the flight attendants provided 5,000 free airline miles as an apology.

Delta declined to touch upon the lawsuit however insisted it “has zero tolerance for purchasers who have interaction in inappropriate or illegal habits.”