Overview

• Wrongful death filings say 85-year-old cardiologist Asoka Jayaweera was denied the vegetarian meal he ordered, told to “eat around” meat, and later died of aspiration pneumonia after an emergency landing in Edinburgh.
• The complaint, first filed July 31 in California state court, was removed to the Central District of California on October 3.
• The suit alleges crew consulted MedAire during the medical emergency and recorded oxygen saturation as low as 69 percent, with consciousness lost for hours before landing.
• Plaintiffs claim the aircraft was over Wisconsin and could have diverted sooner, while alleging crew told a companion diversion was impossible because the flight was above the Arctic Ocean.
• The family seeks negligence and wrongful death damages exceeding treaty caps, and Qatar Airways has not responded to media requests for comment.