Northern District of Illinois
CPM represents families who lost loved ones when Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 crashed on March 10, 2019 in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board. ET 302 was the second crash of Boeing’s new 737 MAX 8 aircraft in less than five months when an angle of attack sensor fed erroneous data to a flight control system--the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)--pitching the plane into an unrecoverable dive. CPM, led by Frank Pitre, is a member of the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee leading the action against Boeing and the supplier of the angle of attack sensor and the designer of the MCAS. CPM alleges that Boeing was aware of the vulnerabilities of its aircraft but deliberately concealed and downplayed the danger in order to protect its bottom line.
