“She’s watching a movie, flight attendant puts a cup of burning hot coffee on her food tray and it ends up in her lap,” Mark Lindquist, the passenger’s attorney, claimed. In the lawsuit filed Thursday by Lindquist’ law firm, the woman, identified only as Cheryl, claims the coffee was boiling hot.

A woman flying from Paris to Seattle was burned after a flight attendant put a boiling cup of coffee on the food tray, and it slid right into her lap, according to her attorney.