The first lawsuits have been filed over the Feb. 17 incident in which a regional jet flipped over upon landing, and a Texas man is one of the passengers firing an early shot. Attorneys representing Marthinus Lourens,

Two passengers have filed federal lawsuits following the crash landing of Flight 4919, which flew from Minneapolis to Toronto.

The passenger from Texas “was violently tossed about and ended up upside down hanging from his seatbelt inside a burning plane with aviation fuel leaking onto him.”