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Title: Airline compo
Post by: silverbullet on July 03, 2023, 05:59:15 pm: Schoolboy who had nightmares after 'terrifying ordeal' settles €10k claim against Ryanair
The teenager had been diagnosed with a degree of stress secondary to the incident as well as headaches
Schoolboy who had nightmares after 'terrifying ordeal' settles €10k claim against Ryanair
The court heard that the Ryanair aircraft sustained a sudden inflight depressurization which had resulted in the necessity for an emergency descent into Frankfurt Hahn airport before the family were able to continue their flight to Zadar. File photo

MON, 03 JUL, 2023 - 17:25
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An 11-year-old schoolboy, who suffered nightmares following the emergency descent and landing of a Ryanair aircraft after inflight loss of cabin pressure, has settled a personal injuries claim against the airline for €10,000.

Barrister Ciaran Mandal told Judge John O’Connor in the Circuit Civil Court on Monday that the incident had occurred on a flight from Dublin to Zadar Airport in July 2018 when Stefan Kokic, now aged 17, was travelling along with his parents to Croatia.

“Stefan was involved in an undoubtedly terrifying ordeal,” said Mr Mandal, who appeared with Rose Sweeney of Coleman Legal Solicitors.

The teenager had sued Ryanair through his mother Nikolina Kokic of The Meadows, Cornelscourt, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, who in an affidavit said her son had suffered emotional upset as a result of the accident but had dealt well with the experience.

Emergency landing

Mr Mandal told the court that the aircraft sustained a sudden inflight depressurization which had resulted in the necessity for an emergency descent into Frankfurt Hahn airport before the family were able to continue their flight to Zadar.

Counsel said the claim had been brought under the Montreal Convention under which, in order to recover damages, the event that occurred had to be an accident and the complainant had to have suffered bodily injury.

Mr Mandal said that although Ryanair had put both matters in issue in their defence they had belatedly conceded the event was indeed an accident. Stefan had subsequently been diagnosed with a degree of stress secondary to the incident as well as headaches.

Stefan had twice attended his GP—Dr Hugh Brady of The Bridge Medical Centre, Newbridge—and counsel was recommending the court’s approval of a €10,000 settlement offer by Ryanair on the basis of “outstanding issues”.

Judge O’Connor approved the offer and told Mr Mandal he had done very well on Stefan’s behalf.

No one else on the flight sued?
Title: Re: Airline compo
Post by: watty on July 03, 2023, 06:17:06 pm: Quote
Judge O’Connor approved the offer and told Mr Mandal he had done very well on Stefan’s behalf.
10k sounds like 'fuk off' money.

The others were probably glad to be alive and thankful the pilot could control the plane in an emergency landing into Frankfurt airport... Why tempt karma?
Title: Re: Airline compo
Post by: Shallow Hal on July 03, 2023, 06:21:36 pm: I'm actually traumatised reading that......better ring me brief!!
Title: Re: Airline compo
Post by: Octavia1 on July 03, 2023, 06:23:32 pm: A generation of bleedin snowflakes ....I never got a penny for the countless times me parents forgot to bring me home from holidays
Title: Re: Airline compo
Post by: Shallow Hal on July 03, 2023, 06:26:10 pm: Quote from: Octavia1 on July 03, 2023, 06:23:32 pm
A generation of bleedin snowflakes ....I never got a penny for the countless times me parents forgot to bring me home from holidays

Forgot?......they probably nicknamed you the boomerang!!
Title: Re: Airline compo
Post by: silverbullet on July 03, 2023, 06:40:22 pm: Quote from: Shallow Hal on July 03, 2023, 06:26:10 pm
Quote from: Octavia1 on July 03, 2023, 06:23:32 pm
A generation of bleedin snowflakes ....I never got a penny for the countless times me parents forgot to bring me home from holidays

Forgot?......they probably nicknamed you the boomerang!!
The number of times they brought him swimming down the canal, and he had to teach himself how to get out of the sack! 8)
Title: Re: Airline compo
Post by: silverbullet on July 03, 2023, 06:44:37 pm: Quote from: watty on July 03, 2023, 06:17:06 pm
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Judge O’Connor approved the offer and told Mr Mandal he had done very well on Stefan’s behalf.
10k sounds like 'fuk off' money.

The others were probably glad to be alive and thankful the pilot could control the plane in an emergency landing into Frankfurt airport... Why tempt karma?
Judge O’Connor approved the offer and told Mr Mandal he had done very well on Stefan’s behalf.

I have first-hand experience of Judge O'Connor, he was telling the Brief he scraped through.

Ten K is nothing after expenses. The expression "No foal, no fee" goes out the window when a case is "won".