The third and latest suit was filed Feb. 20 in Multnomah County Circuit Court and is the first to seek a specified dollar amount: $1 billion in personal and punitive damages.
By Aimee Green, oregonlive.comThis image taken Jan. 7, 2024, shows a section of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737-9 MAX that is missing a panel, in Portland, Ore. of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 moments after it departed Portland International Airport, attorneys representing 62 passengers have filed suit against the airline and Boeing, the plane’s manufacturer.
Two other suits were filed in January in Washington but have not sought specific amounts of compensation. Those suits represent a total of 59 passengers. Kwok was seated near the front of the plane “but immediately became aware of the danger when the oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling,” according to the suit. Rinker and Strickland were seated diagonally behind and across the row from the missing door plug.
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