The suit is one of several expected in the aftermath of the Ethiopian Airlines crash.
By Lori Aratani Lori Aratani Reporter focusing on transportation issues, including airports, airlines, and the nation's railroad and subway systems Email Bio Follow April 8 at 6:41 PM Citing “corporate greed” and “serious misconduct,” the family of an American man who died when an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed last month filed a lawsuit Monday against Boeing, the manufacturer of the 737 Max aircraft.
“In my decades of representing families of the victims of air crashes, I have never seen a case with such serious misconduct by an aircraft manufacturer,” said Floyd Wisner, one of several Houston-based attorneys representing the family. “As the investigation continues, Boeing is cooperating fully with the investigating authorities,” the company said in a statement.
On Thursday, Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg acknowledged that MCAS, short for Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, was a factor in both crashes.“The history of our industry shows most accidents are caused by a chain of events,” Muilenburg said. “This again is the case here, and we know we can break one of those chain links in these two accidents. As pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment.
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