A US woman is suing American Airlines for failing to protect her after another passenger allegedly masturbated near her on a recent flight.
The 21-year-old woman alleges airline employees did not act appropriately after a man sat next to her and began masturbating during a flight in March 2007, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reports.
Her $200,000 lawsuit alleges that she awoke on the flight to Los Angeles to find “a substantial amount of an extremely sticky substance in her hair” and a man next to her masturbating.
Another passenger reportedly calmed the woman and the man was arrested when the plane landed.
The woman claims American Airlines employees had seen the man move next to her but didn’t move him back to his assigned seat.
A spokesman for the airline said crew members took appropriate action.
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