A British man left with ‘life-changing’ burns to his penis after a hot cup of coffee slipped onto his lap during a long-haul Virgin Atlantic flight is seeking compensation.
Nicholas Gibbs, 41, was on a flight from Las Vegas to Heathrow with his partner Claire in December 2025 when the cup of boiling liquid fell from the tray table onto his lap.
Explaining how his ‘badly slanted’ tray was overcrowded with food given to him earlier on in the flight, he said the staff onboard placed the cup of coffee down.
‘They put it on the tray and, almost immediately, it slid off and went
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