jury: crash mostly airline\'s fault

by:Yovog     2023-07-30
A federal jury found on Tuesday that an aviation computer software company and a flying computer manufacturer had contributed to the 1995 plane crash of American Airlines in Colombia, but said Americans were 75% responsible for it.
American Airlines claims that Phoenix\'s airborne computer maker Honeywell\'s air transport systems and Jeppesen Sanderson\'s products, a software manufacturer in Englewood, Colorado.
Caused the crash of Flight 965 near Cali.
159 people, including pilots, were killed.
Four survived.
The jury said Jeppesen was 17% responsible and Honeywell was 8% at fault.
The company said the two companies produced defective products used by the airline. The nine-
Trial in the United States the week beforeS.
Justice Ursula angero District
Benage is part of an American effort to force two companies to pay the $0. 3 billion already paid by airlines and their insurance companies for accident victims and families.
Moscow protested police killing Florida immigration Women\'s Facility Americans accused Honeywell of Jeppesen software in computers, saying that Jeppesen stored the location of the Cali airport beacon in computer files different from most beacons.
The pilot crossed a navigation beacon and then entered an incorrect code in the flight computer to collide the Boeing 757 directly with the Columbia mountainside.
On the evening of December, most of the flights from Miami were from Colombia for Christmas. 20.
Lawyers at the computer company believe that the beacon code can be accessed correctly, and there are errors in the pilot.
Colombian accident investigators blamed the crew for the accident. A different U. S.
The federal judge ruled on September 1997 that the accident was caused by the crew, saying that there was no reasonable jury to find other reasons and allowing the victim\'s damage lawsuit to be directed only to the Americans.
But the Court of Appeal later dismissed the decision and said that the jury had to decide the responsibility, which led to the trial.
Meanwhile, most family lawsuits against Americans have been settled.
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