“If airlines can damage professional-grade instruments and then refuse to take responsibility, it puts every traveling musician at risk”: Emily Wolfe’s signature guitar smashed inside hardcase during flight – airline taking no responsibility

Emily Wolfe.

Blues rock ace Emily Wolfe has taken to Instagram after her signature guitar was decapitated during a Southwest Airlines flight to Las Vegas, revealing that the firm is taking no responsibility for the damage.

The White Wolfe Epiphone Sheraton was placed inside a hard-shell case for the flight. Wolfe says she followed every precaution to avoid such a fate, but the airline claims that “fragile items” like electric guitars fall out of the realm of its duty of care.