The latest entity to sue Air France (over flight 447) is Motorola, who is blaming Air France (formerly Societe Air France) in a “multi district litigation” for the June 1 2009 crash.
The blame game goes like this: Motorola is being sued for designing flight control computer microprocessors which (allegedly) prevented software from functioning. And Motorola is blaming the accident on Air France.
Although U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer dismissed the litigation in October on forum non conveniens grounds, plaintiffs want U.S. jurisdiction. Plaintiffs contend that French courts cannot exercise jurisdiction and the cases would be thwarted for years
Families are asking the manufacturers (Motorola Honeywell International, Intel Corp and General Electric ) be tried in the US because “unilateral submission to jurisdiction in France is not effective to create jurisdiction under European Council Regulation 44/2001” because none of the parties live in France or the European Union. Other companies operating in the US (Honeywell International, Intel Corp and General Electric
The latest black box analysis confirms that invalid (Thales pitot tube) readings were outputted right before the plane crashed.
Austrian Airlines flight OS-375 made a safe landing following multiple bird strikes in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on January 24th.
GoAir flight G8-338 made an emergency landing in Delhi, India, on June 21st.
