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.”
If a company cuts corners to land a billion dollar deal, if you punish them in the millions, it wont have much of an effect.
If there’s a billion dollar deal how much is profit and how much is expenses?
I’m not against fining Alaska a billion dollars, I am against 3 people being the ones to see the result of that fine. Much the same way I’m not against there being a billion dollar deal, I’m against the CEOs taking 80% of that deal as profit and the workers not seeing anything of it.
oh, i assumed it was a class action lawsuit?
I don’t think there are enough people in this to constitute a class?
Classes are for when there’s an unknown amount of victims, and it’s up to the victims to determine if they fit the billing. This is the opposite, they know exactly how many victims there are, and who those victims were, it would be up to each victim to file a lawsuit, and other victims will have no access to joining into this lawsuit (unless the prosecution invites them on, maybe to as a way to get their testimony?)