The “preventable incident” endangered scores of lives both on the plane itself and others flying Max 9 aircraft, the suit alleges.
Three passengers are suing Boeing and Alaska Airlines for $1 billion in damages in the wake of a door panel blowing out midair on their flight.
The suit, announced Feb. 23, accuses Boeing and Alaska Airlines of negligence for allegedly having ignored warning signs that could have prevented the Jan. 5 incident, which forced the plane pilots to make an emergency landing.
“This experience jeopardized the lives of the 174 passengers and six crew members that were on board,” a release announcing the suit states. “For those reasons, the lawsuit seeks substantial punitive damages … for what was a preventable incident.”
Depends if AA ran the maintenance, or if an item was missed in preflight, or a myriad of other things that may have contributed in any way.
Personally I think 1 billion is a money grab, and don’t know how they found that value. What is that - $20 million each or something for being on a plane that lost its door in flight and landed safely?
Because it’s intended to be punitive, not a reparation.
That punitive judgement should be paid to some public fund versus a lottery for some random person. Reparations sure, but I don’t feel like events like this should be a lottery ticket.
From what i understood from the new last week tonight episode, they were just lucky, that the door fell off already, before they reached altitude. Otherwise all the passengers would propbably have died. I think 20 million dollars is perfectly appropriate for being subjected to hours of panicy fear of death.
And if you would put your life on the line to win 20 Million Dollars, that is your personal choice. I wouldnt.
Finally you need to consider that the 1 Billion is the start of negotiation, and the companies will aim for much lower. If they just start with idk. say 100 million, the company would try to haggle it down to 10 million.
I think it should be both.
Hang’em high.