国际英语资讯:Families of Boeing 737 MAX crash victims file suit against Boeing in Chicago_时事

国际英语资讯:Families of Boeing 737 MAX crash victims file suit against Boeing in Chicago

Njoroge choked several times while reading his statement, Vaidya stood up and walked over to pat him on the back at one point.

Kevin Durkin, a partner at Clifford Law Offices, promised that if Boeing denies its negligence in the crash, his firm would "seek every single email, text message that was between them and the FAA".

Alleged problems with the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) have been widely reported to be a likely contributor to the crashes.

In a written statement published earlier, Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said, "We at Boeing are sorry for the lives lost in the recent 737 MAX accidents ... All of us feel the immense gravity of these events across our company and recognize the devastation of the families and friends of the loved ones who perished."

"We've had teams of our top engineers and technical experts working tirelessly in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration and our customers to finalize and implement a software update that will ensure accidents like that of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 never happen again," the statement read.

Boeing said it remains confident in the aircraft and has promised software changes to the MCAS function. "It will be among the safest airplanes ever to fly," read the statement from Muilenburg.

Muilenburg disputed the saying that the 737 MAX was rushed to market. "It was a six-year development; 1,600 test-flights of the airplane; 3,700 flight hours of development on the Max, so it was thorough and it was disciplined," he told investors during a Q&A session at Boeing's annual shareholder meeting in Chicago on Monday.