According to Atlanta Black Star, Greenidge visited family in Central America last June with his uncle. While traveling back to the States, he went into cardiac arrest. A doctor on the flight immediately went to assist the 14-year-old and asked the flight attendants to bring him the AED on board. Unfortunately, the medical professional could not use the equipment to help the teen because the battery needed charging, and the young man died on the flight.

After learning that no one charged or checked the medical equipment that could’ve saved her son’s life, Arzu hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She’s suing American Airlines because she believes the cause of her son’s death was due to “the carelessness, recklessness and negligence of the defendant AMERICAN, its respective agents, servants and/or employees in failing to maintain an automatic external defibrillator (AED) on board the subject flight” and “failing to ensure that the AED and its mobile battery pack were fully and properly charged,” according to the lawsuit.

In addition, the lawsuit states American Airlines is “failing to train its employees with basic resuscitation technique” and “causing, permitting and allowing the mobile battery pack to drain down to no power thereby causing the AED to stop working.”

Atlanta Black Star reported Arzu “is seeking unspecified damages.” In addition, she wants payment of attorney fees.

The court filing also mentioned the Aviation Medical Assistance Act of 1998 since the law “requires airlines to carry defibrillators aboard each aircraft with flight attendants.” In addition, an AED “must be inspected regularly in accordance with inspection periods established in the operations specifications to ensure its condition for continued serviceability and immediate readiness to perform its intended emergency purposes.”