Video footage went viral on social media earlier this summer after an intoxicated woman was seen on a Southwest Airlines flight pulling another woman’s hair and shouting abusive things before being subdued and arrested. Now the woman who was attacked has filed a lawsuit against her attacker and named Southwest as a co-defendant, partially blaming the airline’s open seating policy for the confrontation.

Leanna Perry, identified as a 32-year-old illustrator from Brooklyn by the New York Post , was filmed attacking Kansas resident Livia Rombola during a perplexing outburst on a June flight from New York to Kansas City. Perry appears to slap Rombola and could be heard saying she didn’t want to sit next to a “fucking fat lady” and a “fat-ass bitch.” Perry grabs her hair and won’t let go, as

See Full Page