"Parents of Lion Air Crash Victim Sue Boeing Over 737 MAX Design", 16 Nov 2018

Boeing has been hit with its first lawsuit over the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 near Indonesia last month, in which 189 people died.  The suit was filed in Illinois, where Boeing is headquartered, by the parents of Rio Nanda Pratama, who died in the crash...It claims that the plane was unsafely designed.  Reports...indicated that Boeing knew but did not inform pilots of a flaw in its new flight-control feature...“It is particularly surprising to hear from safety experts...that Boeing failed to warn its customers and the pilots...about this significant change in the flight-control systems and failed to include appropriate instructions in its instruction manuals,” said...one of the lawyers representing Pratama’s parents...