USD 25 Billion in Damages for the Deadliest Crime in US History
B92 20.06.2024 | Index.hr
The families of the victims of the two Boeing 737 Max crashes have asked for a retrial and $24.8 billion in damages for "The deadliest corporate crime in US history."
Paul Cassel, the family's lawyer, said it was reasonable given the enormous human cost of Boeing's crimes. The BBC has seen a 32-page document in which Cassell says the US government should prosecute those who ran the firm when accidents in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people. In October 2018, all 189 passengers on board a Lion Air flight were killed when the plane crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia. In March 2019, an Ethiopian