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Boeing Co. was slapped with two more lawsuits this week by relatives of the victims of a Lion Air jet that plunged into the Java Sea with 189 people on board almost a month ago.
One of the lawsuits filed by Kabateck LLP on behalf of Dayinta Dyah Anggana, whose 54-year-old mother, Nurul Dyah Ayu Sitharesmi, was among the victims, alleges the crash was caused by a defective anti-stall system and Boeing’s defective flight manual and operating procedures.
The claim for unspecified damages was filed at a court in Cook County, where the airline manufacturer is headquartered, Kabateck said in a statement.
The second claim was filed by a 31-year-old widow and young daughters of Ibnu Hantoro, Kabateck said.
The lawsuits come days before Indonesian investigators are scheduled to make public their initial findings of the causes that led to Boeing’s 737 Max jet’s fatal dive.
They have indicated that a faulty system may have caused the nation’s worst aviation disaster in two decades, prompting Boeing to reinforce its pilot manual to airlines operating the latest generation of its best-selling model.