Port Authority sued after Russian man dies during arrest at JFK

The family of a Russian man who suffered a seizure on a plane arriving into JFK alleges he wound up dead after cops at the airport responded to the “disoriented” traveler by punching, pepper-spraying and then sitting on him, according to a new lawsuit.

Grigory Tikhoplav filed the Manhattan Supreme Court suit against the Port Authority on Friday over the death of his son, Evgeniy Lagoda, on April 12, 2019. Lagoda — an engineer who didn’t speak any English — was coming into JFK on a JetBlue flight from Moscow for work when he had a seizure on the plane, according to the suit.