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Ethiopian plane accident (2). First sue open against Boeing

Compensation requests that could increase in the future

The family of Jackson Musoni, a Rwandan citizen who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B-737 MAX 8 incident, filed the first sue on the plane crash of last March 10 to a court in Chicago. In the lawsuit filed by the relatives of one of the 157 victims it is stated that the aerospace company had designed the automatic anti-stall system (MCAS) in a defective manner, so much so that it had to resort...

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