Lion Air crash victim’s family sues Boeing

– The family of an Indonesian man killed in a Lion Air jet crash is suing Boeing, alleging that the accident may have been caused by a problem with the flight-control system in its newest 737 plane.

The father of Rio Nanda Pratama filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in the US state of Illinois,

Jakarta

where the plane manufacturer is head quartered, over the death of the young doctor who was to have married his high-school sweetheart this week.

Pratama’s fiancee Intan Syari, 26, made headlines after she posed alone for photos in a wedding gown that she was to have worn at the nuptials in Indonesia.

Syari said he had asked in jest that she carry on with the photo shoot if he did not return from what turned out to be a fatal trip.

The 26-year-old was among the 189 people killed when the Boeing 737-MAX plunged into the Java Sea on October 29, less than 20 minutes after leaving Jakarta on a routine flight to Pangkal Pinang city. There were no survivors.

The 737-MAX in question had only begun service for budget carrier Lion Air in August.

Questions have swirled about Boeing’s alleged failure to tell airlines and pilots about changes to an antistall system that is being investigated for its possible links to the crash. –