Couple Wins Settlement After Block Of Ice From Jetblue Plane Crashed Through Roof

A colony has been approved for a Southern California couple who sued JetBlue Airways aft a artifact of ice fell from an craft done their tile connected New Year's Day successful 2024.

Michael Reese and Leah Ferrarini were astatine their Inglewood location erstwhile a ample chunk of crystal collapsed done their tile straight supra their furniture soon aft 8:00 p.m., narrowly missing them.

The formation had originated successful New York and was en way to Los Angeles International Airport.

While nan circumstantial colony magnitude remains undisclosed, tribunal papers from JetBlue's attorneys bespeak nan plaintiffs claimed complete $11,000 for tile harm and astir $5,600 for therapy.

Reese besides asserted $84,000 successful mislaid net owed to being disconnected activity from May 2024 to February 2025.

Torrance Superior Court Judge Alan B. Honeycutt approved nan colony connected Wednesday.

JetBlue lawyers stated nan statement was adjacent to some sides, though they maintained nan hose possessed "compelling defenses to title liability" had nan lawsuit proceeded to trial.

An investigation by nan Federal Aviation Administration into nan aircraft's attraction records revealed a history of potable h2o issues making love backmost to July 2023.

The FAA besides linked nan craft to a akin incident successful Massachusetts, nan mates alleged, wherever falling crystal damaged a location successful August 2023.

The couple, who revenge their negligence/trespass suit successful October 2024, expressed that they nary longer consciousness safe successful their location owed to nan persistent fearfulness of being struck by falling debris.