Posted on 03/08/2017 8:20:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
The lawsuit, filed Friday against Boeing in U.S. District Court in South Carolina, names seven malfunctions, from an electrical fire to depressurization of the plane's cabin, that could have led to the crew losing consciousness, the plane's transponder stopping its transmission and the plane flying undetected until it crashed after running out of fuel.
It came as families of the missing passengers and officials marked Wednesday's third anniversary of the Boeing 777's crash.
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The U.S. lawsuit was filed by Gregory Keith, a special administrator for families who lost loved ones on the Malaysia Airlines flight. It names 44 victims as plaintiffs.
It was filed in South Carolina because Boeing has built a massive new plant in the state to build the 787 Dreamliner.
Boeing doesn't comment on pending lawsuits, but spokesman Tom Kim said in a statement the company's thoughts continue to be with the victims.
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The lawsuit notes that search efforts for the plane have ended....
Boeing also didn't use available technology on its 777 planes that would have allowed them to be tracked at all times and made the flight and cockpit voice recorders easier to find, the lawsuit says.
Boeing knew of design flaws on the aircraft, including defective wiring near combustible sources like the emergency oxygen supply to the plane's crew, it says.
"The defects caused and/or allowed a massive and cascading sequence of electrical failures onboard the lost plane which disabled vital systems ... making it impossible for the crew to navigate the plane or for the plane to communicate with the ground stations leaving the aircraft to fly without the ability to communicate or control the aircraft until the plane ran out of fuel," lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
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I am not an aviation guy,
but for a plane that entered service in 1995 and was, until recently considered the safest plane in the sky, this lawsuit appears to be numskullery.
Whambulance chasing Liars know no bounds...
Most Plaintiff lawyers are willing to make any ridiculous assertion in the pursuit of a big payday.
All they need is a pusillanimous judge and a gullible jury.
The plane was carrying a pallet of lithium batteries, the kind that have been known to outgas, overheat, catch fire and explode in certain situations. They were in the forward cargo hold, very close to the main power bus and forward electronics bay where the “brains” of the aircraft were located.
But the real problem was Islam or Boeing.......
Exactly.
Burning cargo batteries brought down a US passenger plane a couple decades ago.
Sue islam.
Bears repeating.
“It came as families of the missing passengers and officials marked Wednesday’s third anniversary of the Boeing 777’s crash”
CRASH? WHERE? Were there any survivors? What do the orange “black boxes” say? How many bodies were recovered? Where did they find the plane?
I know they “SAY”/”CLAIM” to have found wreckage, could be “manufactured” evidence, I don’t buy it.
Hey, in LOST they faked a whole plane crashed on the bottom of the ocean with all passengers dead, still in their seats.
I know it wasn’t REAL, but it does go to show how the human mind works and can give real life people, “ideas”.
So did improperly packaged oxygen generators that were removed during maintenance and being shipped in the cargo hold.
Lawyers are looking for the deepest pockets.
You’re right. I stand corrected.
No doubt the plaintiffs’ attorneys plan to call Miss Cleo as a witness.
What? Miss Cleo is deceased?
All the better for the plaintiffs’ attorneys - that will make it even harder for the defendants’ attorneys to cross examine her testimony.
A US jet was also brought down by battery problems, it may have been a freighter, I don’t recall the details.
Q: "Why do you rob banks?"
A: "Because that's where the money is."
(Popularly attributed to bank robber Willie Sutton.)
I found this, you can sort through and find some of the aircraft crashes that were ‘unexplained’...hope this helps...
Debris left on Runway 22, Rostov-on-don Airport of Flydubai Flight 981.
Wreckage of LaMia Flight 2933.January 8 – West Air Sweden Flight 294, a Bombardier CRJ200 cargo freighter, crashes while in cruise near Akkajaure in Sweden. Both crew members on board are killed.
February 2 – Daallo Airlines Flight 159, an Airbus A321, suffers an explosion shortly after taking off from Aden Adde International Airport, Somalia. Two people are injured and one, the suspected suicide bomber, is killed after falling from the aircraft.
February 24 – Tara Air Flight 193, a Viking Air-built DHC-6 Twin Otter, flies into a storm and crashes into a mountainside at Dana, Myagdi district, Nepal, killing all 23 on board.
February 26 – In the 2016 Air Kasthamandap crash, an Air Kasthamandap PAC 750XL crash-lands in Nepal, killing the two crew members and injuring nine passengers.
March 19 – Flydubai Flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, crashes while landing at Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in poor weather. All 62 people on board are killed.
March 29 – EgyptAir Flight 181, an Airbus A320, is hijacked and forcibly diverted to Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus. All passengers and crew are released unharmed.
April 4 – Batik Air Flight 7703, a Boeing 737-800, collides with an ATR 42 on the runway at Halim Perdanakusma Airport in Jakarta. Both aircraft are substantially damaged.
April 13 – In the 2016 Sunbird Aviation crash, a Britten-Norman Islander crashes short of the runway while landing at Kiunga, Papua New Guinea. All 12 people on board are killed.
April 29 – In the 2016 Turøy helicopter crash, a Eurocopter EC225L Super Puma helicopter crashes near Turøy, an island off the coast of Norway. All 13 passengers and crew are killed.
May 18 – In the 2016 Silk Way Airlines Antonov An-12 crash, a Silk Way Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo plane crashes after an engine failure, killing seven and injuring two.
May 19 – EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320, crashes into the eastern Mediterranean Sea after a series of sharp descending turns. All 56 passengers and 10 crew are killed.
May 27 – Korean Air Flight 2708, a Boeing 777-300, suffers an engine failure and resulting fire while taxiing for takeoff at Haneda Airport; all 319 passengers and crew are evacuated although 12 are injured.
June 27 – Singapore Airlines Flight 368, a Boeing 777-300ER, suffers an engine fire at Singapore Changi Airport after returning due to a fuel leak. All 241 passengers and crew are unharmed.
August 3 – Emirates Flight 521, a Boeing 777-300, lands wheels-up at Dubai International Airport. Shortly after landing, the plane bursts into flames. All 300 passengers and crew escape from the aircraft unharmed; one firefighter killed by an explosion.
August 5 – ASL Airlines Hungary Flight 7332, a Boeing 737, overruns a runway on landing at Orio al Serio International Airport; both pilots survive.
October 28 – American Airlines Flight 383, a Boeing 767-300ER, suffers an uncontained engine failure and fire at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Twenty of the 170 people on board suffer injuries.
October 28 – FedEx Express Flight 910, a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F, skids off the runway after the landing gear collapses on landing at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport; the left wing is severely damaged in a post-crash fire but both pilots survive.
November 28 – LaMia Airlines Flight 2933, an Avro RJ85, crashes at Cerro Gordo en route to Medellín, Colombia. It was carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense. Only six survive among 77 passengers and crew.
December 7 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a ATR-42-500, crashes at Havelian while en route from Chitral to Islamabad. All 42 passengers and 5 crew members are killed in the accident.
December 20 – Aerosucre Flight 4544, a Boeing 727-200, crashes while failing to take off from Puerto Carreño en route to Bogota, Colombia. Only 1 survives of the 6 crew members on board.
December 23 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, an Airbus A320-214, is hijacked by two Gaddafi supporters and forced to land at Malta Airport. After several hours, all passengers and crew are released and the hijackers surrender.
2017[edit]
January 16 – Turkish Airlines Flight 6491, a Boeing 747-400F, crashes into a residential area upon attempting landing in thick fog in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The 4 crew members and 35 people on the ground are killed.
This is ludicrous. There is no evidence that there is a specific cause. Just an ambulance chaser looking for deep pockets.
None of which were met in this flight.
With no evidence.
Boing had better sue the lawyers filing this case for malfeasance for several billions of dollars.
What could a Black Ho do that would cause a plane to crash?
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