Claims To Have Chronic Post-Concussion Syndrome

A passenger recently filed a lawsuit against JetBlue for an incident in 2022. She claims to have life-altering head injuries resulting from a hard stop on the runway.

On May 25, 2022, 60-year-old Jacqueline Crowley of Scituate, Massachusetts boarded JetBlue flight 267 from Logan International Airport in Boston to Charleston, South Carolina. Upon landing, the aircraft experienced a brake failure and was forced to make an unexpected, hard stop on the runway.

Crowley expanded on the incident, stating that the aircraft’s “emergency brakes had kicked in,” causing it to make “an extremely abrupt stop while traveling at a high rate of speed.” She explained that she was left with life-changing head, neck, and back injuries, including an “acute concussion and chronic post-concussion syndrome.”

Crowley’s attorney, Erin Applebaum, commented: “Her head injury completely upended her life and rendered her unable to work… two years later, she continues to suffer from chronic ringing in her ears as a result of the impact.”

She filed a lawsuit accusing JetBlue of negligence in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. The damages remain unspecified.

“There were children on the plane, and I especially recall a young couple with a baby girl just a few rows up from me,” Crowley stated. “What about that family? I hope they are ok.”

The carrier, headquartered in Queens, has faced several individual passenger suits in the past few months. In July, a woman filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against JetBlue after suffering "disfiguring burns.” She explained that hot water spilled on her while the aircraft encountered turbulence.

Then, in August, another passenger set out for a $170,000 compensation for JetBlue’s failure to provide medical assistance. The woman tripped over a dangling seatbelt and broke her ankle and the crew reportedly refused to provide ice or first aid.

JetBlue has yet to make a public statement in regards to the latest suit.

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