Alaska Airlines Boeing landed at Portland Airport after a door went missing mid-flight. NTSB/Portal
They have also filed a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer of the 737 MAX seeking compensation for all passengers due to the injuries they allegedly sustained during the incident.
Six passengers on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which lost a piece of fuselage over Portland in the northwestern United States a week ago, announced Thursday that they were suing Boeing, as reported by the Seattle Times and The Oregonian this Friday, April 12th. January, betrayed. They also filed a proposed class action lawsuit in King County Superior Court in Seattle, demanding that the manufacturer of the 737 MAX owe them and 165 other passengers compensation for injuries sustained in the incident.
One of the passengers said she shook her head during the incident, which resulted in a concussion, soft tissue injuries to her neck and back and bleeding from her ear. She also claimed that her oxygen mask did not appear to be working. Two other passengers named in the complaint said they had difficulty breathing when the cabin was depressurized. One of them said they fainted. Another passenger said he suffered a seizure after getting off the plane due to the stress caused by the incident. The complaint also alleges that many of the oxygen masks were not functional.
A “nightmare experience”
“Although everyone is happy that the accident occurred when the crew was still able to land the aircraft safely, this nightmarish experience continues to have economic, physical and emotional consequences to this day, which of course have also deeply affected our clients,” said lawyer Daniel Laurence, representing the passengers, she wrote in a statement on Thursday.
The lawsuit is filed against Boeing, not Alaska Airlines, because the plane maker's CEO, Dave Calhoun, admitted that the accident was the result of a “mistake” by Boeing, according to the plaintiffs.