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Boeing Sued By Estate Of Ethiopian Pilot Over 737 Max Crash
Law360 (February 18, 2021, 4:26 PM EST) The family of the captain of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 is suing the Boeing Co. over the deadly March 2019 crash in central Ethiopia that killed all on board, saying the company rushed an unsafe plane onto the market without warning pilots or passengers about the danger.
The 63-page complaint, filed Wednesday in Illinois federal court by Anthony P. Janik, representative of pilot Yared Getachew Tessema s estate, also names software manufacturer Rockwell Collins Inc. and Rosemount Aerospace Inc. as defendants, saying the changes the three companies made to the 737 Max 8 aircraft are directly responsible for the crash.
BMW SG finds itself in unfortunate ad placement woe this CNY weekend Details 16 February 2021
BMW has unfortunately found itself in a difficult position after one of its ads emerged on popular local content site Mothership, alongside an article detailing a horrific car crash along Tanjong Pagar which took the lives of five individuals over the Lunar New Year weekend.
The ad seen by MARKETING-INTERACTIVE, on the morning of 16 February 2021, was located midway through the article and had a video promoting the purchase of BMW vehicles through a behind-the-scene point of view. The ad showed mechanics checking the quality of the vehicles, taking stocks, and fixing the cars. A quick check by
Ethiopian Airlines to Resume Boeing 737 Max Flights After Thorough Review
Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Ethiopian Airlines Group plans to resume flights on Boeing Co. 737 Max jets in July after analyzing changes to the model that crashed in the country almost two years ago, killing all 157 people on board.
Africaâs largest airline will retain orders for new Max planes and expects to reach an âamicable settlementâ with Boeing this month regarding the accident, Chief Executive Officer Tewolde GebreMariam said at a CAPA conference on Wednesday. It would have been economically unfeasible to switch aircraft types given it already operates an older 737 variant, the CEO said.
Where is Antoine s cellphone?
“I don’t know why I still have this feeling. Like I want this. I want the phone,” Lopez-Lewis said.
Her husband, she said, recorded everything with his phone. Wouldn’t he have recorded the final moments of that flight?
She recalls an Ethiopian Airlines representative contacting her to say they were clearing the site where Flight 302, using a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, crashed on March 10, 2019. The belongings of all 157 passengers and crew who died would be collected and cataloged.
Once complete, the airline would post the list so families could claim the items that belonged to their loved ones.
CAL President and CEO, Fabian Whorms
The President and CEO of Cayman Airways Ltd (CAL), Mr Fabian Whorms has said that the airline s Boeing 737-8 fleet, consisting of two planes, is ready to safely return to the skies.
This statement comes after yesterday s announcement that The Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands (CAACI) will allow the Boeing 737 MAX to operate passenger flights, subject to close oversight, following the grounding of the aircraft after two tragic accidents Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.
The ban on the aircraft operating in Cayman Islands’ airspace was lifted following similar decisions by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).