I was served nuts three times on a British Airways flight even after I warned staff they could kill me

BRITISH Airways cabin crew served nuts three times to an allergic passenger even after he warned they could kill him.

Terrified Brodie Chapman, 19, was first given a bag of cashews by an attendant before take off — 15 minutes after he had told the same member of staff of his condition.

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Then, during his transatlantic flight from London to Vancouver, Canada, he was given walnut cake as a dessert.

On his return to the UK days later, he suffered a mid-air allergic reaction when he ate fruit served on top of nut-filled granola — averting fatal anaphylactic shock thanks to an injection with his EpiPen.

Travel manager Brodie told the Sun on Sunday: “I was in tears because no one seemed to be taking my condition seriously.

"It was terrifying. I kept telling staff I was allergic to nuts, yet they kept giving me them. If I’d eaten them, I would be dead.”

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In 2016, allergy sufferer Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, collapsed and died on a BA flight after eating a baguette containing sesame seeds which she had bought at the Heathrow terminal.

Brodie said: “You’d think when a girl with an allergy dies on one of your planes — albeit not your fault — you would sit up and think about what you could do to change.”

Her mum Tanya now runs the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation.

She said: “Brodie’s story is a terrifying insight into the world of an allergy sufferer on a plane with poorly trained and ill-informed staff.

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“It tells us that British Airways has learned not one single thing since Natasha’s death five years ago.

“When you are trapped 36,000 feet up and having a serious allergic reaction, that plane is potentially your coffin.”

Brodie, of Southend, Essex, had called BA two days before his flight to inform them of his allergy, and made staff aware as he boarded both times.

BA said it was investigating and added: “We’ve been in contact to apologise and discuss how we can make it up to our customer.”