Injured Qantas plunge passengers to sue Airbus
Sep 20, 2010, 11:03 am
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Injured Qantas plunge passengers to sue Airbus
Passengers on a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth that twice plunged hundreds of metres - injuring more than 100 people - will sue manufacturer Airbus in the US over a computer malfunction that caused the mishap.
The Airbus A330 had to make an emergency landing in Learmonth in West Australia's north-west in 2008 after the mayday alert.
Many passengers and crew members on board suffered trauma and physical injury.
US lawyer Floyd Wisner is representing 76 people in the compensation claim against Airbus and other companies that make the computer system that malfunctioned.
"It was a mechanical defect caused by the manufacturer," he said.
Mr Wisner said he was confident that the compensation claim would be successful.
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-...920-15j98.html
The Airbus A330 had to make an emergency landing in Learmonth in West Australia's north-west in 2008 after the mayday alert.
Many passengers and crew members on board suffered trauma and physical injury.
US lawyer Floyd Wisner is representing 76 people in the compensation claim against Airbus and other companies that make the computer system that malfunctioned.
"It was a mechanical defect caused by the manufacturer," he said.
Mr Wisner said he was confident that the compensation claim would be successful.
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-...920-15j98.html
Sep 20, 2010, 1:54 pm
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Sep 21, 2010, 8:27 pm
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Many passengers and crew members on board suffered trauma
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-...920-15j98.html
Sep 21, 2010, 9:00 pm
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I fail to see how the US is involved in this... since the flight originated from Singapore to Australia, flying over Indonesian/Australian airspace, and the aircraft is a European made aircraft....
Sep 21, 2010, 9:06 pm
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There's some discussion over in the Qantas forum about equipment involved being manufactured in the U.S.