An off-duty pilot aboard an American Airlines flight claims he suffered permanent hearing loss, and now has a “constant ringing” in his ears, after the crew asked him to help fix a potentially catastrophic door-seal failure that occurred nearly six miles up in the sky.
Once he volunteered to assist on the Denver-Miami flight last year, Capt. Wayne Hoefler, a Colorado Springs resident who flies long-haul 747s to global destinations, was “continually subjected to the constant deafening scream of the seal failure only inches from his ears,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
