The first of the expected lawsuits against Boeing Co, over the March 10 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people, was filed in U.S. federal court on Thursday .
The suit was filed in Chicago federal court by the family of Jackson Musoni, a 31-year-old citizen of Rwanda, who was working for UNHCR in East Darfur, at the time of his death in the crash.
The suit filed by Musoni’s three minor children, who reside in Belgium as Dutch citizens, alleges that Boeing, which manufactures the 737 MAX, had defectively designed the automated flight control system.
The 737 MAX planes were grounded worldwide following the Ethiopian Airlines disaster, which came five months after a Lion Air crash in Indonesia that killed 189 people.
Boeing said on Wednesday it had reprogrammed software on its 737 MAX to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is facing mounting scrutiny in the wake of two…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
