A French widow has filed a multi-million lawsuit against aircraft manufacturer Boeing, after her husband died in the Boeing 737-MAX crash in Ethiopia on March 8.
The woman, named as Nadege Dubois-Seex, is asking for $276m in damages for her husband’s death, which she claims was the result of willful neglect of known information about a previous, and eerily similar crash in Indonesia.
The two deadly crashes, which cost the lives of 346 people, have been linked to the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a system designed to prevent an aerodynamic stall. Boeing has admitted to ‘flaws’ on the MCAS design, and it’s working on a software upgrade while the entire Boeing 737-MAX fleet remains grounded worldwide.
The widow claims that her husband’s death was ‘preventable.’