American Airlines Attendant Punched Passenger, Suit Says

An American Airlines flight attendant aboard a flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Philadelphia punched a passenger without provocation, a new lawsuit alleges.

The Jan. 11 complaint, filed by Gregory Lagana in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, is the latest in a trend of cases alleging in-flight assaults on major airlines.

Recent lawsuits have alleged assaults by fellow passengers, such as two suits against United Airlines last year alleging it didn’t do enough to protect two women from sexual assaults by drunken male passengers.

Here, however, Lagana says it was a flight attendant who pinned his ...