Cyprus Mail, "Boeing faces US lawsuit over Helios crash"

          A team of lawyers representing 11 victims of last August’s Helios Airways plane disaster have announced that the families have filed a lawsuit against Boeing in the United States.
          In a press release issued yesterday, American law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein declared: “In co-operation with the Cyprus law firm Phoebus, Christos Clerides, N. Pirilides & Associates, of Nicosia and Limassol, the families of victims of the crash of Helios Flight 522 filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against The Boeing Company in the United States District Court in Chicago, Illinois.”
          One hundred and fifteen passengers and six crew died on August 14, 2005, when the Boeing 737-200 apparently flew without cabin pressure and then crashed north of Athens.
          “The investigation of the crash has reportedly found that the pressurisation system on the plane was not properly configured by the pilots at the time the aircraft took off from Larnaca,” the lawyers’ statement said. However, Robert L. Lieff, founding partner of the American law firm, explained that “while there appears to have been negligence on the part of the Helios pilots, Boeing was also negligent and shares responsibility for the passengers’ deaths.”

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