Overview

• Sixty-five families have retained Beasley Allen, the U.S. aviation law firm that represented 737 MAX victims, to pursue product liability claims against Boeing and Montreal Convention claims against Air India.
• Beasley Allen is exploring filings in U.S. federal courts and U.K. courts under the Montreal Convention, though no formal lawsuits have been initiated.
• Victims’ relatives have formally demanded immediate public release of both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder to ensure full transparency in the ongoing investigation.
• India’s AAIB is leading the technical probe with assistance from the U.S. NTSB, the U.K.’s AAIB and Boeing, and its July report cited simultaneous fuel-switch cut-offs without assigning blame.
• Families and lawyers are pointing to Boeing’s $2.5 billion 2021 deferred prosecution agreement over 737 MAX crashes as a benchmark for accountability in the 787 Dreamliner inquiry.