The Boeing crashes this year, the US-Justice: The aviation company threatens a lengthy and possibly expensive lawsuit. A pilot has sued the company for financial and other damages due to the accidents and the subsequent launching bans on the affected 737 Max machines.
According to his lawyers, the lawsuit was filed on Friday with a court in Illinois, where Boeing is headquartered. The lawsuit was designed as a possible class action, which could join more than 400 other pilots. Boeing did not comment on the litigation at first.
Were the calamities predictable?
The plaintiff, who was anonymized in the court documents as "Pilot X" of "Airline X", makes serious allegations. Boeing and the US aviation authority FAA is accused of "an unprecedented cover-up" of known mistakes made by the 737 Max. The crashes and the following flight bans were therefore "predictable" been.
The driver complains, among other things, "significant income losses" as well as "serious emotional and mental suffering". In a sense, he was forced to fly the Boeing aircraft and endanger not only himself but also the crew and passengers. The manufacturer had known about problems of the 737 Max, but not sufficiently warned airlines and pilots.
When a 737 Max crashed in Ethiopia, all 157 inmates were killed. In another accident in Indonesia, 189 people died. As a result, in March, a global ban on the Boeing 737 Max was imposed, which applies until further notice. The cause of the crashes is a problem with the new stabilization system MCAS. Boeing has therefore made a software update.
