Boeing faces fresh lawsuit over missing MH370 as families mark 2nd anniversary

The family of an MH370 passenger has brought a lawsuit against Boeing in what is believed to be the first case filed in the United States against the manufacturer of the missing plane. The suit was filed last week in Chicago, where Boeing is based, on behalf US citizen Philip Wood. It alleges that the Boeing 777 aircraft flown by Malaysia Airlines was a defective product and seeks court-determined compensation, according to a copy of the complaint. Today marks the second anniversary of the disappearance.

A reasonable inference that can be drawn from all of the available evidence is that the disappearance of flight MH370 was the result of one or more defects in the manufacture and or design of the Boeing airplane.

An extract from the newest lawsuit

The international investigation team probing the missing flight issued a brief statement to mark the occasion merely confirming no wreckage had been found in the South Indian Ocean. Malaysia Airlines MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew. The second anniversary is the deadline for legal action against the airline, and lawsuits have been filed in recent days on behalf of well over 100 next-of-kin in courts in the United States, Malaysia, China, Australia, and elsewhere. The Boeing suit said the flight’s disappearance was due in part to the aircraft’s lack of “readily available and reasonable alternative technologies that would have permitted the Boeing airplane’s precise location to be tracked in real-time anywhere on the planet”.

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