Law firm set to sue Boeing over crash
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July 18, 2013, Thursday
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A CHICAGO law firm has taken steps to sue Boeing Co on behalf of 83 people who were on the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed in San Francisco earlier this month, alleging that a malfunction of the plane's auto throttle may have caused the crash.
On Monday, Ribbeck Law Chartered filed a petition for discovery, which is aimed at preserving evidence, in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, where the aircraft manufacturer is headquartered.
The firm said in a news release that additional pleadings will be filed against Asiana Airlines and several component parts manufacturers in coming days.
In addition to potential problems with the Boeing 777's auto throttle, some emergency slides reportedly opened inside the plane, injuring passengers and blocking their exit, and some passengers had to be cut out of their seatbelts with a knife, the firm said.
Three Chinese teenage girls were killed when the airplane, carrying 307 passengers and crew on a flight from South Korea to San Francisco International Airport on July 6, approached the runway too low and slow. The plane clipped a seawall at the end of a runway, tearing off the tail and sending the plane spinning down the runway.
The impact caused the plane to catch fire.
"We must find the causes of the crash and demand that the problems with the airline and the aircraft are immediately resolved to avoid future tragedies," attorney Monica Kelly, head of Ribbeck's aviation department, said.
Boeing spokesman John Dern said the company had no comment.
On Monday, Ribbeck Law Chartered filed a petition for discovery, which is aimed at preserving evidence, in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, where the aircraft manufacturer is headquartered.
The firm said in a news release that additional pleadings will be filed against Asiana Airlines and several component parts manufacturers in coming days.
In addition to potential problems with the Boeing 777's auto throttle, some emergency slides reportedly opened inside the plane, injuring passengers and blocking their exit, and some passengers had to be cut out of their seatbelts with a knife, the firm said.
Three Chinese teenage girls were killed when the airplane, carrying 307 passengers and crew on a flight from South Korea to San Francisco International Airport on July 6, approached the runway too low and slow. The plane clipped a seawall at the end of a runway, tearing off the tail and sending the plane spinning down the runway.
The impact caused the plane to catch fire.
"We must find the causes of the crash and demand that the problems with the airline and the aircraft are immediately resolved to avoid future tragedies," attorney Monica Kelly, head of Ribbeck's aviation department, said.
Boeing spokesman John Dern said the company had no comment.
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