Lawyers representing the families of the victims killed in Indonesia’s Lion Air crash hoped to bring charges against Boeing along with the recent Ethiopian Air crash as both incidents showed similarities.
Speaking at a news conference in Jakarta on Thursday (April 4), Herrmann Law Group’s lawyer Mark Lindquist said the legal team is trying to have the Lion Air case heard in the United States as it is where “the evidence of Boeing’s wrongdoing is”. The legal team also received requests to represent victims’ families of the March 10 Ethiopian Airlines crash.
Ethiopian investigators released the first official report of the crash that killed 157 people on Thursday, stating that Ethiopian Airlines pilots followed proper procedures when their Boeing MAX 8 airplane repeatedly nose-dived.
The preliminary report into the Lion Air disaster said the pilots lost control after grappling with the plane’s Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software, a new automated anti-stall feature that repeatedly lowered the nose of the aircraft based on faulty data from a sensor.