Couple joins billion-dollar lawsuit against Boeing, Southwest Airlines

An Atlanta-based attorney has filed an amended lawsuit against Boeing and Southwest on behalf of a couple who witnessed a fellow passenger sucked into an aircraft window. Tyler and Alexis Albin were on a honeymoon trip when they boarded Flight 1380 from New York LaGuardia to Dallas. The April 2018 flight took a deadly turn when an engine on the Boeing aircraft exploded, and the medical school couple watched another passenger get sucked into an aircraft window. "We could turn over our shoulders and she was two seats over,” Alexis Albin said in a 2018 interview. “We had a straight shot. We had front-row seats.” The victim, Jennifer Riordan, was pulled from the window by fellow passenger but attempts to save her life were not successful. "We did about 10 cycles of rescue and CPR while we waited for EMS to get on the plane, but there was nothing else we could do,” Tyler Albin said. “It was helpless.” The Albins have been added to a $1b complaint against Boeing and Southwest, filed by Atlanta-based attorney Jonathan W. Johnson. Johnson filed the amended complaint in New York last week, largely focusing on Boeing failures of the past two years that are under investigation.<br/>