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Boeing shareholders sue over 737 MAX debacle

Aaron Hilsz-Lothian·
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Boeing shareholders sue over 737 MAX debacle

The temperature is rising within Boeing as a new lawsuit accuses the company of defrauding shareholders by masking safety deficiencies in the 737 MAX, leading to two fatal crashes within six months and an ongoing worldwide grounding of the type.

Citing Reuters, the proposed class action filed in Chicago federal court seeks damages for alleged securities fraud violations, after $34 billion was eliminated from Boeing’s market value within two weeks of the most recent 737 MAX crash being Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, leaving 157 passengers and crew deceased.

The complaint states Boeing “effectively put profitability and growth ahead of airplane safety and honesty” by rushing the 737 MAX to market to compete with Airbus, while leaving out “extra” or “optional” features designed to prevent the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes.

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX involved in fatal crash
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX

Additionally, it covers the contributing factor of Boeing and the FAA potentially not following the correct chain of command via experience to certify an aircraft.

The lead plaintiff, Richard Seeks, began to seek action shortly after the crash of ET302. After purchasing 300 Boeing shares in March and selling them at a loss, the next step was to take action. The lawsuit applies to stock investors between the dates January 8 and March 21.

This development adds to the ongoing bombardment from media and other investigative authorities, including the FBI and the Department of Justice, who are conducting a criminal investigation on the company, which you can read about here:

FBI to join Boeing 737 MAX criminal investigation

Aaron Hilsz-Lothian

Based in Sydney Australia, Aaron currently works as as a load control planner among the regional operation centre of a major airline. In addition to this, he has multiple years of experience in a frontline aviation environment including ramp, customer acceptance and freight. Writing casually for Sam Chui since 2018, he intends to use his experience in the industry to answer everyday questions that passengers often ponder and to shed light on the complex systems that make aviation so fascinating.

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3 Responses

  1. Beoing is a change MAN. Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIzcuNpXP0 and hear what Alzerzeera have to say about the Dreamliner program. And the 737 MAX incident are what one of the ex-employee called it ” a Hijack by a bunch of coroporate ducks” . Do you think all airliners should put pressure on Beoing? Aljazeera are news reporter will call a spade, spade. Donald Trump will never come to your rescue if you have are hurt. You can be sure of that.

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  2. “effectively put profitability and growth ahead of airplane safety and honesty”

    that’s rich coming from the shareholders

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  3. It was bad enough when it seemed Boeing was negligent in the crashes of ET302 and JT610, but had heaped blame on the pilots or their training.

    Now that it emerges Europe’s EASA had raised issues about MCAS in 2016 and demanded extra training and manual references to MCAS which Boeing promised to comply with, but did not, that Boeing has engaged in criminal deception with safety regulators.

    Boeing are about to learn that TRUST is a commodity in marketing airliners. They are about to learn that the public can not be tricked with slick PR to fly on unsafe aeroplanes.

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