Two French families are suing the 737 MAX manufacturer, saying the flight shouldn’t have taken off after the earlier Lion Air disaster
Flowers lie at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, south-east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Picture: REUTERS/TIKSA NEGERITwo French families have filed lawsuits against US aircraft manufacturer Boeing over the crash of a 737 MAX of Ethiopian Airlines in March, lawyers said on Tuesday.
The first complaint, filed in Paris by a family of one of the French victims, refers to the Lion Air crash and says that “technical failure could not have been ignored” by the manufacturer and other actors involved in constructing the aircraft. It accuses Boeing of “involuntary homicide”. “We did not wait for Boeing’s confessions over the existence of faults to seek the penal responsibility of the manufacturer,” said Yassine Bouzrou, the family’s lawyer. The complaint was filed in April but is only being made public now.
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