Crash victims to sue Boeing
November 20, 2009
A number of the passengers who were on board a British Airways flight from Beijing to London when it was forced to make a crash landing at Heathrow have decided to sue aircraft manufacturer Boeing. The BA flight was carrying 152 people when it crash landed and ten of those passengers have asked London-based legal firm Stewarts Law to act on their behalf against Boeing. A number of passengers on the flight received injuries when the aircraft crash landed but there were no fatalities.
Paul Stafford who is one of the passengers involved in bringing legal action against Boeing said that he thought he was probably going to die as the aircraft’s undercarriage smashed through one of the wings. The academic director of international development at London’s Kingston University also said that he wished the crash had never happened and that not a day goes past when he does not think about it.
The U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch is still trying to put together a final report as to what caused the crash but has said that as the aircraft approached Heathrow for its landing the fuel flow to both of the engines became reduced. The AAIB have also investigated the possibility that there could have been an ice build up somewhere in the aircraft’s fuel system.
The ten passengers who are suing Boeing say that they are doing so on the grounds that the aircraft was defective. Boeing has said that they do not wish to make any comment for the moment.
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