A Team USA judo coach suffered permanent vision loss in his right eye when a clumsy JetBlue flight attendant dropped a pot of coffee she was serving — splashing hot java in his face, he said in a lawsuit.
Arturas Lanchinskas, a third-degree black belt who owns a top martial arts school in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, was headed to the Pan American Judo Championships in Lima, Peru in July 2023 to coach the American team when scorching spill on Flight 1825 changed his life.
“It felt like a surge of fire hit the surface of my eyeball,” Lanchinskas, 30, told The Post. “The pain was sharp and immediate, like a burning needle.”
Arturas Lanchinskas, who owns a top ranked martial arts school in Brooklyn, was on his way to a judo championship in Peru when he was hurt. Obtained by the New York Post
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