Two unidentified female flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Airlines and two of their pilots, claiming the men allegedly drugged and raped them during a layover in Puerto Rico last year.
According to HuffPo, the suit alleges that pilots, Eric Johnson and Dan Watson approached the two crew members and another woman, who worked for the airline, while the ladies were relaxing and drinking on a beach on May 9th.
The Pilots reportedly introduced themselves to the women and informed them that they also worked for JetBlue, and then offered the women an opened beer from a lunch bag they were carrying with them. The women believe that beer was laced with drugs of some sort. They claim that sometime after drinking the beer, the women found themselves back at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Juan with Johnson and Watson and the rest of the night became a total blur for them.
In the suit, one of the women claims that she remembered waking up in a hazy state as Johnson was raping her.
According to her account:
“[Her] flashes of memory included Johnson having sexual intercourse with the other [third] crewmember who was also under the influence of the drugs,” the suit alleges. The pilots allegedly did not sexually assault the other woman because she started to vomit and her nausea became “a turnoff.”
Johnson reportedly capped off the evening by “thanking” the women for “Making his fantasy come true.”
One of the women, went to her doctor after she returned home from the horrific ordeal and found that she tested positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which the suit alleges, “she could only have contracted from defendant Johnson.”
Both women in the lawsuit reported the incident to JetBlue’s corporate headquarters, but the suit claims that “no corrective action was ever taken again.”
The women are suing in New York Federal Court for $75,000 in compensatory and punitive damages and reimbursement of their attorney’s fees.
JetBlue declined to make any comment to HuffPo on “pending litigation,” but the airline maintains that they take “allegations of violent or inappropriate behavior very seriously and investigates such claims thoroughly.”
