A Virginia man flying back to the United States from Egypt feared for his life after reaching into his seatback pocket and pricking his hand on a stray hypodermic needle, enduring, among other things, “mental distress,” “shock” and “outrage” about having possibly contracted a deadly disease.
That’s according to a $5 million federal lawsuit obtained by The Independent, which says the 40-something Charlottesville resident, who is anonymized as “John Doe” in court papers, faced “months of uncertainty” when EgyptAir refused to identify the person who had sat in the seat prior.
