Plane Passenger Sues Boeing After Alleged Exposure to Toxic Fumes
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:40.2 | A law professor, Jonathan Harris, is suing Boeing seeking $40 million in damages. |
| 0:45.6 | He alleges that his exposure to a toxic fume event on a 737 jet operated by Delta Airlines |
| 0:51.1 | caused him brain and respiratory injuries. The professor's lawyer says |
| 0:55.3 | it's the first lawsuit on this topic led by a passenger on a U.S. commercial flight, and it follows |
| 1:00.2 | a Wall Street Journal report on the rise in airplane fume events in recent years. For years, the industry |
| 1:05.6 | has maintained that incidents are rare and haven't been shown to pose significant health risks when they do |
| 1:10.6 | occur. |
| 1:11.5 | Delta and Boeing declined to comment. |
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