The “preventable incident” endangered scores of lives both on the plane itself and others flying Max 9 aircraft, the suit alleges.
Three passengers are suing Boeing and Alaska Airlines for $1 billion in damages in the wake of a door panel blowing out midair on their flight.
The suit, announced Feb. 23, accuses Boeing and Alaska Airlines of negligence for allegedly having ignored warning signs that could have prevented the Jan. 5 incident, which forced the plane pilots to make an emergency landing.
“This experience jeopardized the lives of the 174 passengers and six crew members that were on board,” a release announcing the suit states. “For those reasons, the lawsuit seeks substantial punitive damages … for what was a preventable incident.”
Not that I don’t want to see Boeing pay a cool B, but can they seek damages over a hypothetical?
I mean, the door didn’t hypothetically fly off the plane. They’re asking for punitive damages, so they want the court to punish the airline financially
Which is the only thing Boeing cares about so it might just work
I’m in the same boat.
Boing sold their soul for profit and it’s biting them hard, as it should, but this sounds more like an airline maintenance issue rather than some sort of design or manufacturing defect, no?
Boeing was sending them out the door like this and it was a new plane. They’ve had quality issues that they haven’t been addressing
The door came off the line from boeing missing some of the bolts holding it in entirely.
Engineers at boeing had flagged for issues in the 737 construction line, and even recommended it be stopped, and issues worked out before something dangerous happened. But the higher ups didn’t want to stop production due to, what else, money.
This is according to a whistleblower inside Boeing.