Faced with lawsuits over a plane crash half a world away, Boeing Co. is arguing it shouldn’t have to defend itself in a courtroom a short walk from its Chicago corporate headquarters.
Officials move an engine recovered from the crashed Lion Air jet for further investigation in Jakarta, Indonesia. over a plane crash half a world away, Boeing Co. is arguing it shouldn’t have to defend itself in a courtroom a short walk from its Chicago corporate headquarters.
Boeing said there’s precedent for such cases to be heard in the country where the incident took place. Another lawyer involved in the cases, Brian Kabateck, said it makes no sense to move the litigation to Indonesia because the 737 Max was designed, manufactured and sold in the U.S. “This is not like other airline crashes,” Kabateck said. “I’ve never had a case in which everything related to the aircraft happened here.
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