{"id":297831,"date":"2025-10-08T01:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/family-sues-qatar-airways-passenger-chokes-to-death\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:45:17","slug":"family-sues-qatar-airways-after-passenger-chokes-to-death-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=297831","title":{"rendered":"Family Sues Qatar Airways After Passenger Chokes To Death Mid-Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, an 85-year-old Southern California cardiologist, Asoka Jayaweera, died while onboard a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254996\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qatar-airways\/\"  >Qatar Airways<\/a><\/span> flight from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Doha Hamad International Airport (DOH). Allegations indicate that he was not provided with a vegetarian meal that he pre-ordered, and flight attendants were not concerned by this matter, reportedly telling him to &#8220;eat around&#8221; the meat in a regular meal. He then began choking and later died as a result, with family members citing aspiration pneumonia as the ultimate cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the specifics of this incident have not been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1695,49,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-middle-east","category-passenger","category-qatar-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298031,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297831\/revisions\/298031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}