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The husband of a woman who died
abroad after she was allegedly
barred from flying back to the U.S. for
being too fat has settled his $6 million
lawsuit against the airlines.

According to Ny Daily News,Janos
Soltesz, 57, quietly settled his
wrongful death suit against Delta,
KLM Royal Dutch and Lufthansa
airlines in late August.

The suit
accused the airlines of having sent his 407-pound wife Vilma "on a
debilitating 'wild goose chase' from
airline to airline, airport to home, and
country to country" that caused her
to lose her life in Oct. 2012. In addition to morbid obesity, Vilma,
56, had a partially amputated leg that
left her wheelchair bound, court
papers say.

The suit says the couple
flew to their native Hungary in Sept.
2012 without issue — they bought Vilma two tickets for each leg of the
flight — but were unceremoniously
bounced between three separate
airlines in two different countries
when they tried to get Vilma home to
see her doctor in the States. Vilma began feeling sick on Oct. 2,
but a doctor in Hungary cleared her
to fly home as scheduled on Oct.
15.

Her own doctor in New York told
her she should come in to his office
as soon as she got back so he could "adjust her medication or prescribe
new medication

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She never made it. On Oct. 15, the couple went to
Budapest Ferihegy International
Airport to catch their flight home.

But
once they got on the KLM plane, "it
was discovered that the backs of two
seats in their row were broken," so she couldn't maneuver from her
wheelchair into the seats.

"When informed of the problem, the
KLM employees did not offer to
change their seats," and told them
they had to get off the flight.

They
were kept waiting in the airport for
five hours, and then told they could fly Delta the next day out of Prague,
which was nearly a five-hour drive
away, the suit says. "KLM employees
assured Janos and Vilma that Delta
has been made aware of Vilma's
medical condition and her weight, and that there would be no further
issues accommodating her for their
return flight home,"

They drove to the airport and arrived
seven hours early to make sure there
were no problems, But when they
tried to get on, "it became apparent
that Delta did not have an adequate
or proper wheelchair to transport Vilma to her seat." They were "forced
to disembark" and told "there was
nothing more Delta could do for
them," She again got her boarding pass, and
"several Lufthansa medics and local
EMS/Firefighters helped to get Vilma
onto the aircraft and into the row of
her assigned seats. However, with the
boarding of Vilma onto flight LH1335 almost complete, the captain came
out of the cockpit andtold Janos and
Vilma that they would have to
disembark immediately.

He stated
that 'other passengers need to catch
a connecting flight and cannot be delayed further,'" It took a half hour to get Vilma off the
plane, the suit says, and she began
feeling sicker on their way back to
Preszem.

Their travel agent told them
"she would somehow find a way for
them to get home to New York soon," it says.On October 24, "Janos found
Vilma dead in her bed,".

It was nine
days after she'd been scheduled to
see her doctor in The Bronx.

The court action charged the airlines
with causing her death, saying they'd
shown "a willful, wanton and
reckless disregard" for Vilma's safety
by having "intentionally refused to
make the proper accommodations for her."