Passenger attacked in the Viral Tiktok video pursue Southwest Airlines, blame the seat plan

Video sequences have become viral on social networks earlier this summer after a woman who was in a state of drunkenness was seen on a flight from Southwest Airlines pulling the hair of another woman and crying abusive things before being moderate and arrested. Now, the woman who has been attacked filed a complaint against her attacker and appointed Southwest as a co-owner, partially accused of the airline policy for the airline for the confrontation.

Leanna Perry, identified as a 32 -year -old illustrator from Brooklyn by the New York Post, was filmed by attacking Livia Rombola, Kansas resident, during a confusing explosion on a New York June flight in Kansas City. Perry seems to slap Rombola and you could be heard that she did not want to sit next to a “fucking big lady” and a “fatty slut”. Perry grabs his hair and will not let go, because other passengers try to intervene and defuse the situation.

As passengers tell Perry to let go of Rombola’s hair, she smiles and denies what she does in the video. As Perry is selected, she spat in Rombela several times. Someone wearing a Southwest Airlines shirt keeps Perry’s head at the back of a seat to try to stop him, but she continues to “close the fuck” several times.

The tiktok video of the incident that attracted the most attention was removed from the social platform. But copies still exist elsewhere on the Internet, such as Subredit for Kansas City.

Another video that was originally published on Tiktok, but which is now on Reddit, shows that Perry is deployed on a plane grinder while the police and paramedical paramedics escort the woman.

The complaint, obtained by the independent and available online, details how Rombola underwent serious, serious and painful bodily injuries, some of which are permanent and lasting in their nature. The trial indicates that Perry was in intoxication and that it displayed a “early red flag” to the airline staff by rejecting an open seat near a different person on the flight.

Southwest has always had an open seats arrangement, but the trial supports the Politics “was clear Departure of industry standards from other airlines within the same industry. »» Southwest announced in the summer of 2024 that passengers would be allocated seats in 2025, but the date of implementation is in fact scheduled for January 2026.

The trial claims that “Lack of proactive attribution of seats directly Contributed to confrontation “and” the seats policy serves the financial and logistical interests of the company, while exposing passengers to the unnecessary question of conflict resulting from the act of selection of autonomous seats. »»

The costume also explains that Rombela suffered due to the attention of online altercation, including in online videos, titles and comments after attack. Rombola says that she suffered “reputation damage, professional embarrassment and social stigmatization” of the exhibition.

The FAA has received more than 1,000 unruly passenger reports in the United States so far this year, according to the agency’s website. This may seem high, but it is in fact considerably decreasing since 2021 during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, while there were 5,973 unruly passenger reports.

Contracted by e-mail, a Southwest spokesperson told Gizmodo that they could not comment on the litigation in progress. An e-mail address associated with Perry and a Rombola lawyer did not respond immediately on Wednesday. Gizmodo will update this article if we hear.