On November 30, 1991, Krys boarded a Lufthansa 747 in Miami, headed to Frankfurt, Germany.
[1] Later the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the airline's appeal arguing that the incident should have been classified as an accident, per the Warsaw Convention, capping his payout.
The result of this suit prompted the airlines to review their safety manuals, including portable defibrillators and training the crew on how to use them.
He acted in Telemundo telenovelas, local theater, an episode of America's Most Wanted (as an Israeli searching for his son's killer), several independent films and in Latin pop star La India's video, Traicion, as a priest.
One of Krys' son, Sebastian, is a four-time American Grammy winner and eight-time Latin Grammy Awards producer and mixer (as of 2011) Leonardo Krys died of a heart attack in Miami, on March 14, 2009.