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Passengers sue Boeing, Alaska Airlines for $1 billion over midair door panel blowout
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Does Boeing's behavior qualify as gross negligence? I think they would have to be knowingly selling defective airplanes, or at least knowingly disregarding proper procedure when building those airplanes.
I'm not sure Alaska Airlines was even negligent.
Apparently in a previous flight passengers reported a whistling sound. Further, a pressurisation computer was apparently replaced multiple times instead of noticing why it was giving issues.
See https://youtu.be/ROeGKs4xTfs?t=16m33s
Where I'm guessing they're going on this is the Alaska Airlines actions on the pressurization computer. There was a fault detected, and the tech assumed the computer was bad because the fault cleared on its own. The computer was replaced. I think this happened two times.
The fault the door shimmying slightly releasing pressure because it wasn't bolted.
Plus I'm a previous flight passengers apparently reported a whistling sound. See https://youtu.be/ROeGKs4xTfs?t=16m33s
Depends if AA ran the maintenance, or if an item was missed in preflight, or a myriad of other things that may have contributed in any way.
Personally I think 1 billion is a money grab, and don't know how they found that value. What is that - $20 million each or something for being on a plane that lost its door in flight and landed safely?
Because it’s intended to be punitive, not a reparation.
That punitive judgement should be paid to some public fund versus a lottery for some random person. Reparations sure, but I don’t feel like events like this should be a lottery ticket.
From what i understood from the new last week tonight episode, they were just lucky, that the door fell off already, before they reached altitude. Otherwise all the passengers would propbably have died. I think 20 million dollars is perfectly appropriate for being subjected to hours of panicy fear of death.
And if you would put your life on the line to win 20 Million Dollars, that is your personal choice. I wouldnt.
Finally you need to consider that the 1 Billion is the start of negotiation, and the companies will aim for much lower. If they just start with idk. say 100 million, the company would try to haggle it down to 10 million.
I think it should be both.
Hang'em high.