Plane crashes near Centralia, leads to outages in Boone County

A Reuters release announces that the relatives of passengers killed in an Air France crash off Brazil have filed nearly two dozen wrongful death lawsuits against Airbus, alleging that aircraft maker’s A330 crashed because of flaws in the plane and its U.S.-made components.

The search for the black boxes is supposed to be continuing now that investigators have decided on the likeliest location where they may be found. The plane originally went down 680 miles off the coast of Brazil, but in the past ten months since the tragedy, water currents dispersing the wreckage will have made the search more difficult.

An Airbus Americas spokesman has said they “will be moving to have (the lawsuit) dismissed.”

Lawyers from the Miami-based firm Podhurst Orseck has not yet responded to Airbus statements.