The latest update on the tragic AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crash late last year is that an Aviation lawywer from Chicago is suing owners of the Malaysian Carrier, the plane manufacturer Airbus, Motorola Inc. and other suppliers.
As reported by News Asia One, Atty. Floyd Wisner of Wisner Law Firm has recently issued an official statement that he will be filing the case against the two companies on behalf of 162 passengers and crew onboard AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and died when it crashed in Java Sea on December 28 last year while traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. .
For more than twenty years, Wisner has been actively handling cases of catastrophic air disaster involving a lot of Airbus incidents that have been repeatedly happenning for years.
He said, "Airbus and its supplier manufacturers are aware of problems that cause the fly-by-wire protection to malfunction, yet they apepar to have done nothing about it, despite many incidents."
Moreover, the lawyer criticized AirAsia for half the amount of compensation being offered to the families of victims in comparison to what was paid to the bereaved of other air crash accidents in the past.
Wisner went on adding, "AirAsia is not handling the claims of its passengers pursuant to international standards, but is treating its passengers differently to those on MH370, MH17 and Germanwings.
Despite the promises of AirAsia's owner, Tony Fernandes, that the victims' families would be treated fairly, AirAsia is proving that it is a low fare, low compensation airline."
At the time of writing, Wisner revealed that he represents ten families that will pursue the case against the Malaysian carrier and that he anticipates that this number will increase.
"There are still many families in Indonesia and a few other countries that have spoken to us, and we are willing to talk to any other families that want to join the legal case," Wisner said.
The case is now filed in US state of Illinois against defendants, Airbus, Honeywell International, Motorola Inc. and other suppliers. The said lawsuit stipulates, "at the time the accident aircraft left the control of defendant Airbus, it was defectively and unreasonably dangerous."
Meanwhile, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes is reported to have been emotional up until now and cried in private over what happened to AirAsia Flight QZ8501. In his interview with 938LIVE as published by Channel News Asia, Fernandes revealed that such aftermath of last year's crash has affected him deeply.
"I cried alone. I've never said that. I think when you're with your people, you need to be as strong as possible," Fernandez said.
"The first step was, 'Do I turn up or do I not go?', and the first decision was 'No, you shouldn't go. This is the Indonesian airline.' But the airline is so closely linked with me, it would have been wrong not to have gone and my staff needed me, my people needed me and most importantly, it had to be seen by the relatives that the very top was there," he said.
With 162 deaths of that crash, the CEO said that the disastrous event had become a traumatic personal struggle.
"When you take a young woman back to her home to bury her, when you meet the families of our pilots, and whole families were wiped out... But whatever remorse you do feel, you can't feel what they went through, so that's very emotional," he added.
Search and recovery operations in the Java Sea lead by Indonesian authorites had already been called off last March. There are 56 people who remained missing and unrecoved from the sad AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 crash.
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