Yale Student Sues Airways For 1 Million Over Lost Xbox

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Yale University student is suing US Airways for up to a million dollars over his Xbox 360 that went missing from his luggage following a December flight from Connecticut to Ohio.

Included in his luggage for that trip was his Xbox 360, which had a specialized hard drive and components he said cost more than $1,000.

When he picked up his luggage after landing… he saw that everything was there except the video-game console and its accompanying components… What followed, his suit alleges, was weeks of “an unconscionable ‘run-around’ “…

“That thing was my DVD player,” Maiman, a junior film studies major, said… The suit seeks to have the airline pay him $1,700 for the loss of the gaming system and for “non-economic distress” of at least $25,000, but “in the maximum amount allowable by law or, in the alternative, in the sum of $1,000,000.”