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    More Than a Dozen Family Members Expected to Attend Boeing Hearings; Meetings with FAA and Boeing Executives Scheduled this Week
    Posted on October 28, 2019 To

    More Than a Dozen Family Members Expected to Attend Boeing Hearings; Meetings with FAA and Boeing Executives Scheduled this Week

    Nearly 20 family members from several countries who lost loved ones in the Boeing crash in Ethiopia earlier this year will be attending hearings scheduled this week before Congress where Boeing’s top executives are scheduled to testify. Family members just returned from Ethiopia where they collected the remains of those who died in the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max8 jet. They traveled this weekend to the nation’s capital to attend a…

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    Max8 Crash Families Send Demand Letter to FAA and DOT Chiefs to Revoke Boeing’s Self-Certification
    Posted on October 23, 2019 To

    Max8 Crash Families Send Demand Letter to FAA and DOT Chiefs to Revoke Boeing’s Self-Certification

    As family members return with remains from Ethiopia following the crash of the 737 Max8 jet on March 10, 2019, some call for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to terminate Boeing’s Organization Designation Authorization (ODA). Under federal law, the ODA program is the means by which the FAA grants designee authority to organizations or companies related to issuing certificates, or related to the examination, testing and inspection necessary to issue a certificate on behalf of…

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    Lead Counsel of Boeing Crash in Ethiopia Says NTSB Safety Recommendations Come Too Late
    Posted on September 26, 2019 To

    Lead Counsel of Boeing Crash in Ethiopia Says NTSB Safety Recommendations Come Too Late

    Lead Counsel of Boeing Crash in Ethiopia Says NTSB Safety Recommendations Come Too Late; Robert Clifford Concerned NTSB Safety Recommendations Are Insufficient And Don’t Include Input From Airline Pilot or Accident Victim Organizations – Looks Forward to October 30 Congressional Hearing on 737 MAX In the wake of the seven recommendations released September 26th by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) regarding the 737 MAX plane, the Lead Counsel for the families of the victims…

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    Canadian Families to Speak Today to FAA Head Dickson in Montreal
    Posted on September 23, 2019 To

    Canadian Families to Speak to FAA Head Dickson in Montreal

    Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson will meet with about 50 international regulators from around the world to a briefing on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 on the status of the Boeing 737 Max8 in Montreal, Canada. The meeting reportedly is scheduled to take place at 3:30 p.m. (EST) at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), 800 Rue du Square-Victoria, Montreal. Just prior to this meeting, Dickson is scheduled to meet with family members from…

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    Robert A. Clifford Named Lead Counsel in Crash of Boeing Jet in Ethiopia
    Posted on September 17, 2019 To

    Robert A. Clifford Named Lead Counsel in Crash of Boeing Jet in Ethiopia

    On September 17, 2019, Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, was named Lead Counsel in the U.S. federal district court litigation involving the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302’s Boeing 737 Max8 jet on March 10, 2019, in Ethiopia. The consolidated litigation includes 97 currently-filed individual lawsuits filed thus far in U.S. District Court in Chicago against Chicago-based Boeing and other defendants including airline parts manufacturers and aircraft designers. U.S….

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    Victims to Hold Memorial Vigil at Department of Transportation on Six-Month Anniversary
    Posted on September 9, 2019 To

    Families and Friends of Boeing Crash Victims to Hold Memorial Vigil at Department of Transportation on Six-Month Anniversary; Families Meeting with DOT Secretary 10 a.m. September 10th, 2019

    Families and friends of those who lost loved ones in the March 10 Boeing 737 Max8 crash in Ethiopia will hold a memorial vigil in front of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Tuesday, September 10th, 2019. The group also has invited the staffs of DOT and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as well as U.S. House and Senate Aviation Subcommittees and their staffs to attend the hour-long vigil. Supporters representing those who lost…

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    Screen Shot 2019
    Posted on August 7, 2019 To

    Families of Boeing Crash Ask FAA for Full Review of 737 Max Aircraft

    In the wake of the second Boeing 737 Max8 crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people from 35 countries, family and friends of 52 of the victims sent a letter Tuesday (Aug. 6, 2019) to the heads of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the US Department of Transportation asking for a full regulatory review of the aircraft before it is ungrounded. The families were joined by 109 relatives and friends of another 30 victims…

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    Posted on August 1, 2019 To

    Family of Boeing Crash Victim to Meet with the FAA’s Top Safety Manager After Protesting Today in Front of FAA Headquarters in Nation’s Capital

    The mother and brother of Ethiopian Air crash victim Samya Stumo were at Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Headquarters in Washington DC on August 1st, 2019, in protest of comments made yesterday at a US Senate hearing by Ali Bahrami, the FAA’s associate administrator for aviation safety. They are scheduled to meet with Bahrami at 3 pm August 1st, 2019, at his FAA office. Nadia Milleron and Tor Stumo stood with signs in front of the…

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    Posted on August 1, 2019 To

    Boeing Max 8 Victims’ Family Protesting August 1st, 2019, at Noon for FAA Leader’s Statements Made at Senate Hearing

    In response to Federal Aviation Administration officials’ statements before Congress yesterday, Nadia Milleron, the mother of Samya Stumo, one of the Boeing 737 Max victims, is protesting in front of the FAA offices at 800 Independence Av. SW, Washington, D.C. at noon on August 1st, 2019. Associate Administrator of Aviation Safety, Ali Bahrami, testified yesterday that following the airplane’s 2018 crash in the Java Sea, the FAA’s analysis of Boeing’s 737 MAX’s MCAS software revealed…

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