New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- Qatar Airways is facing a wrongful death lawsuit in the US after an 85-year-old passenger, a strict vegetarian, reportedly choked and died on a flight after being served a non-vegetarian meal.

The incident occurred on a Los Angeles-Colombo flight in July 2023, when Dr Asoka Jayaweera, a retired cardiologist from Southern California, was denied the vegetarian meal he had pre-ordered. According to the lawsuit, filed by his son Surya Jayaweera, the crew advised him to "eat around" the meat in the regular meal provided, instead, the Independent reported.

While attempting to do so, Jayaweera began choking and subsequently lost consciousness, the complaint states. Despite intervention by the flight crew and remote assista...