Singapore Aviation and General Insurance Company has filed two lawsuits, one in New York, and the other in Los Angeles, seeking some $55 million in damages from Boeing and several aircraft component manufacturers related to the crash of a SilkAir 737 in Indonesia in 1997.
Investigators have so far failed to establish the proximate cause of the disaster, but there are indications that the pilot, who had had disciplinary problems with the airline, may have deliberately, caused the plane to crash.
SilkAir officials, and spokesman for Singapore Airlines, its parent company, have claimed that mechanical failure caused the crash, and not pilot error. The families of crash victims have filed several lawsuits in Singapore against SilkAir and the travel companies who sold tickets for the ill-fated flight.
The companies named in the complaint have so far made no response to the allegations.
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