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Indonesia Plane Crash: Families Of Victims File Lawsuit Against Boeing
737-500 plane models have a fatal malfunction that caused the flight to auto-dive and plunge into the Java Sea bed, Indonesia victims families alleged.
Families who lost relatives in Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 flight plane crash on January 30 sued Boeing for operating a ‘defective and a dangerous aircraft’. At least three Indonesian families of the victims killed onboard SJ-182 air carrier, filed a lawsuit against the Chicago-based aerospace firm with the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois on January 25, United States Wisner Law Firm said in a release. Family members looking for settlement claimed in the lawsuit that the 737-500 plane models have a fatal malfunction that caused the flight to auto-dive and plunge into the Java Sea bed, off the Indonesian coast, north of Jakarta just minutes after the takeoff. The flight, bound for Jakarta to Pontianak, vanished fro
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you ll remember the lion air flight, october of last year, boeing 737 max 8, this plane crashed taking off out of jakarta. again, we re seeing the same plane, alex, involved in another crash. we won t talk about the types of accident because the lion air accident is still being investigated, but, yes, you re absolutely correct. this is the second 737 max 8 incident in less than five months. that is somewhat unprecedented for a brand-new aircraft. but we shouldn t draw any conclusions yet. because it s yet to be determined what has happened to this laptop. and search and rescue is still under way. naturally, this is going to send jitters across the industry until we know more. i want to under score what you said, not to draw any conclusions on it but it is
for boeing airlines. that airport, the bole international airport is extremely busy for passengers all over the world transiting through addis ababa in the mountainous region of the city. at this stage, those are the details we have and rescuers will be already on the scene, natalie. very interesting information you just brought up, that this was a new aircraft like the one that crashed, that lion aircraft, and that they were both in the air such a short amount of time. i m trying to remember, david, didn t the crew in the lion crash, didn t they signal some duress from the cockpit? reporter: well, there was the issue of the sensors and that the crew had difficulty controlling the plane because of the sensor inputs. that was the initial assessment of that lion air crash. in this case, we don t know if there was communication at this
from the airlines last year. in that case, it s believed there was an issue with the sensor input, something boeing admitted to. it s too early to say, of course, what caused this crash. but that will be a worrying sign, because of the same type of aircraft. and the fact that this airline lost contact soon after takeoff, similar to the lion air crash. the prime minister of ethiopia weighing in. in fact, many people found out about this first from his twitter page, saying that he sends his deepest condolences to families of those who lost their loved ones. the airline, though, is saying they have no information yet on possible survivors or deaths because of this crash. ethiopia airline is one of the biggest airlines in africa. has an excellent safety record and is well-known as incentive