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  "textContent": "The family of a 33-year-old Prince George’s County woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after she died following a medical episode on a flight out of Dulles.\n\nShe worked in a civilian role for the Department of Defense and even received an excellence award for her work.\n\nThis new lawsuit says just four days after she received that award, she came to Dulles to go on a trip to Asia with her friends, but never made it home.\n\nPorsha Brown, just 33 years old, was born in Silver Spring, lived in District Heights, and got her master’s degree from Maryland.\n\nAccording to this lawsuit, Brown had a medical episode about 12 hours into her flight from Dulles to Seoul, South Korea, in March 2024.\n\nOn that flight, operated by Korean Airlines, Brown went into sudden respiratory distress, saying, \"I can’t breathe\" before collapsing.\n\nThe complaint alleges her death resulted directly from a series of \"critical failures\" by flight personnel.\n\nThe suit alleges that the first error made was giving her an oxygen mask, but never actually plugging that mask into an oxygen tank.\n\n\"So instead of providing her with supplemental oxygen, the mask was actually smothering her on the flight, and eyewitnesses report she continued to say, 'I can’t breathe.’ It got worse, she couldn’t breathe, she went into cardiac arrest and unfortunately, that’s when the whole issue with the AED happened,\" said Hannah Crowe, attorney, Burns Charest LLP.\n\nWhat the attorney there is referencing is the next claim in the suit — that the crew failed to follow basic emergency protocols, like operating the AED machine on board.\n\nIt says the machine indicated a shock was necessary, but that the crew stood by and watched as untrained passengers were unable to operate it, despite the fact that the crew was trained on how to.\n\nThe suit then goes on to claim that the crew also failed to properly notify the cockpit of the severity of Brown’s emergency, delaying a diversion to the nearest airport.\n\nBy the time the flight finally landed in Osaka, Japan, the suit claims she was pronounced dead.\n\nHer attorneys argue the airline failed to follow its own policies and that had they Brown would have survived.\n\n\"One of the saddest things that an eyewitness reported to me, that the flight attendants, they alternated between panicking, standing there and taking notes, so this was not a crew — unfortunately — that was prepared to swing into action,\" Crowe said.\n\n\"When you step onto a flight, particularly an international flight, you have extra protections under the law,\" Crowe went on to say. \"The airline has duties to you\n\nIn a statement to FOX 5, the airline said, \"Korean Air will fully respond to and participate in the legal proceeding but as there now is pending litigation, it would be inappropriate for Korean Air to make any further statement.\"\n\nBrown leaves behind her parents, brother and two young nephews.",
  "title": "Prince George's County family files wrongful death lawsuit after woman dies on flight out of Dulles"
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