Law firm to sue Boeing over Asiana San Francisco crash

Posted on 18 Jul 2013 by Tim Brown

Chicago law firm Ribbeck Law Chartered has taken steps to undertake a class action against Boeing on behalf of 83 passengers on the ill fated Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed in San Francisco earlier this month.

The law firm alleges that a malfunction of the plane’s autothrottle may have caused the crash. The pilots of Asiana Flight 214 have told investigators they were relying on automated cockpit equipment to control their speed. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators found that the autothrottle had been “armed,” or “made ready for…

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