Briohny Smyth, 44, who now teaches yoga in Los Angeles, filed the complaint in Los Angeles federal court on July 24, according to The Independent.
The incident she describes took place two years earlier, aboard a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Los Angeles on July 28, 2024.
Smyth "unknowingly swallowed a jagged wooden splinter" that broke away from the skewer as she ate, the complaint states. It caused "immediate pain," "violent coughing" and "choking sensations."
She spent much of the flight trying to dislodge the fragment, according to the filing. She "ultimately" expelled "a jagged wooden shard approximately 1.5 inches in length," or roughly 3.8 cm.
She endured "substantial pain and emotional distress" in the process, the complaint says.
