Posted on 08/01/2025 5:44:10 PM PDT by xxqqzz
SEATTLE— Four flight attendants who were aboard the Alaska Airlines (AS) flight that suffered a mid-air panel blowout in January 2024 are suing Boeing for physical and emotional damages. The incident occurred on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet departing from Portland International Airport (PDX).
The lawsuits, filed in Seattle’s King County Superior Court, allege negligence and inadequate quality control in Boeing’s manufacturing and repair processes. The plaintiffs seek compensation for emotional trauma, medical costs, and long-term economic impacts.
The four flight attendants, represented by attorney Tracy Brammeier, claim they sustained serious emotional and physical harm during the sudden cabin panel failure that forced an emergency landing.
The incident drew national attention and triggered investigations into Boeing’s production standards, particularly on the 737 MAX series.
The lawsuits emphasize that Boeing failed in its duty of care by producing an aircraft with critical assembly errors.
Notably, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed in July that four key bolts had not been installed on the panel that detached mid-flight. This omission directly contributed to the structural failure, according to preliminary findings.
freestar The filings argue that Boeing had longstanding awareness of systemic quality control issues within its assembly lines and failed to implement sufficient corrective measures. The plaintiffs accuse the company of “reckless disregard” for the safety of passengers and crew.
Consequences for Boeing and Federal Oversight Agencies This legal development compounds Boeing’s broader troubles. The U.S. Department of Justice has reopened a criminal investigation, asserting the company violated a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement stemming from previous 737 MAX crashes.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has also come under fire for its oversight failures. The NTSB criticized both Boeing and the FAA, stating the agency lacked adequate procedures to ensure compliance and did not detect Boeing’s safety lapses.
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Boeing was run by engineers. Then accountants took over.
Someone forgot four critical bolts which led to the failure? Sounds like gross incompetence which is a specialty of DEI. I have a feeling this lawsuit is a slam dunk for the flight attendants. The only question remaining is how much will Boeing pay.
Up $100/share since its low in 2021. Proving that you can add value if you don’t waste money on quality control.
If one reads deeper into the page the article is on, there is also another lawsuit filed pertaining to that plane that flipped over at Toronto. Here the plaintiff said the pilot was under qualified. This was a news thread here on FR when the story first broke. The pilot was also a DEI hire.
The janitors are now suing the toilets makers! Wow.
At this point the case is closed and no one knows who was supposed to install the door plug and who was supposed to make sure the job was done right. The door plug require 4 very expensive bolts .....and they were not screwed in, the repair was cleared and the plane flew. Wow !
Someone will need to explain why the DEI pilots and Alaska airlines kept that aircraft in service knowing it had defects!! Alaska airlines would not let that aircraft fly to Hawaii due to what was going on with the maintenance squawks on it related to PRESSURIZATION!
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine that pressurization issues on a brand new aircraft should have been an all stop to find out what was creating the issue. Instead the DEI pilot(s) took off that fateful day and wouldn’t you know it the panel blew out! Alaska airlines has to take part of the blame for this disaster.
How much of the audio was erased by the aircrew actions from that flight? Do we have the audio of the pilots discussing the pressurization issues and basically ignoring them? How many aircrew were flying that plane prior to the blow out? We are living in a dangerous time with all of the DEI hires in the system. Manufacturing DEI, Aircrew DEI, Air Traffic Control DEI…
Bookmark!
and for those of you who haven’t seen it RFK’s sister did a documentary about the 737 Max and everything the crashes of 2019 revealed, called “Downfall” on Netflix.
This has DEI written all over it. Rasta Boy with ropey hair and high on weed. DEI. Ganja, mon.
It’s more than just DEI y’all. Its leadership is swampier than the swampiest of DC corruption. And symbolic of American decline in general— as it once was a great company.
God will be their final judge seeing as how none of them will be held accountable.
In the meantime:
Another Boeing whistleblower is dead—this time a healthy 45-year-old who battled a sudden, severe infection…
https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/boeing-whistleblower-dead-joshua-dean-45-sudden-severe-infection/
Downfall: the case against Boeing
https://www.netflix.com/title/81272421
“four key bolts had not been installed on the panel that detached mid-flight”
I guess those are important?
How do they know it wasn’t the maintenance muslims that removed or loosened the bolts?
Wow so you will be in denial to go to bat for these corrupt billionaire CEO to the end.
Boeing became a corrupt mess the same way as so many other once great American institutions - due much in part to the elites who run it. We didn’t even DEI for things to get bad. They already were.
They don’t ...
I don’t think a plugged toilet would cause as much stress and anxiety with plumbers as having a hatch blow out would have on flight attendants. It’s a miracle that the failure occurred at a low enough altitude such that nobody was sucked out that opening.
I don’t think failed toilets suck plumbers down to the sewage plant.
When the door fell off, I suspected a lapse in QC where checks were skipped but signed off. They raced those new jets through the assembly line using shortcuts in order to max production and save on the cost of labor.
If you save on quality control, you can have higher short term earnings and pay yourself big bonuses.
“..Boeing was run by engineers. Then accountants took over....”
IF one wants their business to survive, NEVER let accountants and/or lawyers manage anything. Let em “count the beans”, let em provide legal and financial advice etc, but DO NOT let em manage anything....
The McDonnell Douglass deal did it
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