£280,000 pay-out for BA hostess hit by canister

A BRITISH Airways stewardess who has been unable to return to work since a metal canister fell on her head while she was on duty will receive £280,000 damages.

Gail Ormiston-White, 42, from Buckinghamshire, said she suffered “serious neurological consequences” from the blow to the back of her head while providing drinks for passengers during a delay before take off from Heathrow in July 2008.

In papers before the High Court, her counsel, Freya Newbery, alleged that BA was negligent or in breach of its statutory duty concerning health and safety.

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Yesterday, just before Mr Justice MacDuff was to decide the contested issue of liability, Ms Newbery told him that the case had settled on the basis that Mrs Ormiston-White should receive £280,000 plus costs.