MH370 widow sues Boeing
Boeing is being sued by the widow of a Kiwi who was aboard Malaysian flight MH370 when it went missing in 2014.
Danica Weeks is reportedly claiming that it was a fault on the aircraft that caused the crash which ultimately led to the disappearance of her 38-year-old husband, Paul.
Weeks was heading to work on a Mongolian mine site when the aircraft, along with its 239 passengers and crew, vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
An Australian oceanographer at the CSIRO has suggested a new search area for the missing plane, which has been described as being the ‘only hope’ to finding it.
Dr David Griffin told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the missing plane could only be 35 degrees south in the southern Indian Ocean.
A memorandum of understanding was also recently signed between Malaysia and the Houston, Texas-based Ocean Infinity Limited to begin a new quest to find the ill-fated jetliner.
Malaysia had agreed to pay up to $US70 million if Ocean Infinity can locate the main wreckage within three months of embarking on the new search.
This follows years of searches by multiple governments in a 120,000 sq km area of the Indian Ocean at a cost of $200 million to no avail.
But since July 2015 more than 20 objects either confirmed or believed to be from the plane have washed ashore on beaches throughout the Indian Ocean, which has renewed hope that the plane might actually still be found.
Weeks, who now lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, was unavailable for comment. However, she has previously stated that she still has her own ideas about what happened to the plane and that she does not believe the flight’s disappearance had anything to do with the pilot.
Weeks has no plans to hold a memorial service for her husband until she gets more answers.