A young man died mid-flight from an asthma attack. His family claims the airline ‘failed’ him

The family of a man who had an asthma attack and died last year on a British Airways flight from London to New York is now suing the carrier, claiming that flight attendants never even made an announcement asking if there was a doctor onboard. The plane was roughly an hour out from landing when Shimon Breuer, 25, began to have difficulty breathing, according to a wrongful death lawsuit his brother filed in Brooklyn federal court. It says a panicked Breuer “gasped for air,” and “begged for help,” but that the cabin crew “failed to provide… prompt and proper medical attention,” resulting in his death. News reports at the time said Breuer had accidentally dropped his rescue inhaler between seats, preventing him from saving his own life, and that after Breuer blacked out, crew members attempted — unsuccessfully — to administer CPR and oxygen, not realizing the London resident’s airways had completely closed up from the asthma. But attorney Abe Bohrer told The Independent that the inhaler narrative “proved inaccurate” upon further investigation. “It is shocking and shameful that the airline would seek to blame the innocent victim for his own death,” Bohrer said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. “This airline had a responsibility to this young man, they failed him, and now his family is left to pick up the pieces.”<br/>