Boeing Accepts Sole Responsibility for 737 MAX Crashes
This civil case agreement waiving discovery makes the FlyersRights.org litigation one of the only ways Accountability and Truth about the MAX crashes can be achieved, as well as future Safety to prevent avoidable deaths due to lax, incompetent or corrupt safety decision making.
The other ways are whistle blower revelations, criminal investigations and proceedings, Congressional investigations using subpoena powers, and amendments to the Freedom of Information Act.
A 2019 Supreme Court decision known as Argus Leader allows regulated corporations like Boeing and federal safety agencies like the FAA to keep their safety decision making secret and immune from any independent safety expert or public scrutiny.
For details call Paul Hudson or Andrew Appelbaum at FlyersRights.org at 800-662-1859 or 410-940-8934 cell or email to paul@flyersrights.org or andrew@flyersrights.org
Reported by Dominic Gates | Seattle Times aerospace reporter
Boeing accepts sole responsibility for 737 MAX crashes, wins agreement that avoids punitive damages
Boeing’s lawyers filed a joint court motion Wednesday with the lawyers for the families of the 157 people who died in the 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia, accepting sole liability for the fatal accident and laying out a process to settle almost all the claims.
“The defendant, Boeing, has admitted that it produced an airplane that had an unsafe condition that was a proximate cause of Plaintiff’s compensatory damages caused by the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accident,” the filing states.
Boeing explicitly agreed that the pilots were not at fault.
It also exonerated two MAX suppliers: the company that built the jet’s angle of attack sensor and the one that produced, to Boeing’s specification, the aircraft’s faulty flight control software.
