Passengers to sue Airbus for computer malfunction
13:51, 20 September 2010
CANBERRA. September 20. KAZINFORM Passengers on a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth of Australia, which twice plunged hundreds of meters, injuring more than 100 people, confirmed Monday that they will sue manufacturer Airbus over a computer malfunction that caused the mishap. Kazinform refers Xinhua.
The Airbus A330 had to make an emergency landing in Learmonth in West Australia's northwest in 2008 after the mayday alert.
Many passengers and crew-members on board suffered trauma and physical injury.
U.S. 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," Wisner told Australian Associated Press on Monday.
Wisner said he was confident that the compensation claim would be successful. Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version.