Nothing ventured, nothing gained. An American woman is suing EgyptAir for $5 million (4.7 million euros) after an unfortunate flight incident. The newspaper New York Post reported on this case this weekend, which occurred following a flight between New York and Cairo, Egypt, on February 18.

During the flight, the 35-year-old woman, Esraa Hezain, reportedly suffered from “burns” after a “cup of tea without lid” flew off its seat shelf, judged to be “defective”according to Brooklyn federal court documents consulted by the American newspaper. The incident was allegedly caused by “significant turbulence”the complaint states, deploring the fact that the aircraft’s crew “did not suspend service prior to the turbulence or issue a warning of impending turbulence.”.

In addition, the plaintiff, who lives in the Manhattan district of New York, claims that several seatback shelves on the plane – including her own – were in a “advanced state of disrepair”. She reports having been “seriously” injured. His lawyer, Abram Bohrer, told the New York Post that she had suffered second-degree burns to her lower abdomen, inner right thigh and buttocks. “For the price of a lid, this shouldn’t have happened”he lamented.