Posted on 03/04/2024 4:55:40 AM PST by V_TWIN
Three people who were on board Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 are asking for $1 billion in punitive damages from the carrier and Boeing.
Kyle Rinker, Amanda Strickland, and Kevin Kwok flew on the Boeing 737 Max 9 which lost its door plug in midair on January 5, according to a press release from the aviation law firm Jonathan W. Johnson LLC.
The blowout caused an uncontrolled decompression, meaning oxygen masks were deployed before the jet returned to Portland International Airport 20 minutes later. Nobody was seriously injured.
The lawsuit was filed last month in Multnomah County, which includes Portland, Oregon.
In its press release, the law firm said it "seeks to hold Boeing accountable for its negligence which had caused extreme panic, fear, and post-traumatic stress."
It added that it is asking for "substantial" damages because the "preventable incident" risked the lives of 180 people.
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I'm sure the lawyers are just reaching for the moon but I think william shakespeare was right al along.
Get woke, go broke...
This is what can kill Wokedom and DEI.
Money problems seem to be causing some sanity to work its way into the EV situation. Money will be the only thing that can do the same for DEI.
Of course they are. Who would just want to be grateful to be alive, when there’s easy money on the table.
Yep. Money is just the currency of reality itself.
Boeing has been losing their way ever since the merger with Mcdonnell Douglas and the move of their HQ from Washington state to Chicago.
What they need, and what they'll never get, is a major shakeup of upper management by getting rid of the bean counters and installing engineers.
A lawsuit is fair enough, but these amounts are becoming ridiculous.
I’ve suspected it was a quality control related issue from the beginning.
17 years in an aviation maintenance quality department taught me that there really is no substitute for a second set of eyes monitoring critical processes.
When I first heard about this I thought “ah yes, the swiss cheese model has reared its ugly head”.
Not grateful to be alive...They have to prove negligence??
Which is why no one is getting $1 billion out of this.
I believe it will be easy for Boeing to document the proper procedures were in place and the training was appropriate. The burden will fall on mechanic error and whoever signed off the paperwork saying these procedures were followed. Boeing’s liability will be limited.
Alaska Airlines will be similarly situated.
In the past, the reason so many aircraft accidents were labeled “Pilot Error”was to limit liability of the company. That has shifted when the deep pockets were pursued over nit-picky procedural errors. The companies responded by having so much of there manuals written in legalese. That’s great for the trial lawyers, but a pain for the everyday user.
EC
That hatch should be larger than the opening and never fit through it unless rotated 90 degrees horizontally and again sideways.
“Nobody was seriously injured”
Except a lot of underwear took a serious hit.
In 2009 my company sent me to Boeing’s Seattle headquarters to interface for a joint project. The overall sensation was that Boeing employees were entitled, arrogant and unaccepting of any input. I got this feeling even from overhead conversations in the cafeteria. The company seems rotten from the head to the guy mopping the floors. The reason Boeing was even involved in the project was because a Senator required it to get his vote on the funding. The necessity of making them a co-manager added an element of expense and random disorganization that eventually combined with other problems to kill the project. Too many cooks. And the cooks from Boeing had no clue how to make a soup.
“whoever signed off the paperwork saying these procedures were followed”
I think your referring to quality control, and yes more than likely the documentation is all electronic which means it should be available at virtually the push of a button.
However, last I heard was Boeing was unresponsive to turning over that data to the NTSB.
Ah come on. Totla BS. It is time Congress steps in and puts an end to this BS. Of course should they give the money to Trump, we may be on to something;)
This money will be donated to the Trump Campaign? Maybe the Red State Americans can start suing every level of government, every corporation, every person with wealth to fund Trump’s Campaign.
Boing sucks but where are the damages?
Jump-scares and hurt feelings aren’t damages.
Boeing certainly hasn’t been able to generate much confidence in the fundamental desing and safe operation of the 737Maxx....the only othe rthing is they ought to add the FAA to the suit
A billion dollars might “un-woken” the boardroom
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