Ethiopia crash may test Boeing's success in defeating U.S. lawsuits: legal experts

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The crash of Boeing Co's 737 MAX 8 passenger jet in Ethiopia raises the cha...

- The crash of Boeing Co’s 737 MAX 8 passenger jet in Ethiopia raises the chances that families of the 157 victims, even non-U.S. residents, will be able to sue in U.S. courts, where payouts are larger than in other countries, some legal experts said.

That allows the company to avoid U.S. juries, which can award hefty punitive damages to accident victims for wrongful death, emotional suffering and economic hardships of surviving family. The causes are still unknown, but both involved a relatively new 737 MAX 8 aircraft that crashed within minutes of takeoff and experienced sudden drops in altitude when the aircrafts should have been steadily climbing.

Plaintiffs will also claim Boeing failed to exercise reasonable care in designing planes or failed to inform flight crews about how the planes operate, Wolk said.

 

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Since the 1960s their airplane fatalities have outnumbered their military jet fatalities. They care more about military pilots who spread our oligarchy than civilians who are visiting loved ones or taking some RR from our enslavement here in the US.

They're gonna make a shit ton of money from the US government, they don't care lol

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