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Article: US Airways Charges Boeing Withheld Test Flight Facts With Fatal Results -- Charges made in court documents from suit following 1994 crash of Boeing 737
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- February 19, 2000
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SEATTLE (AP) - US Airways officials have accused The Boeing Co.
of withholding information they say could have prevented the crash
of a 737 jetliner near Pittsburgh in 1994 that killed 132 people.
The accusations, made in documents unsealed this week, say the
data were from Boeing's 737 flight test program and concerned a
control problem.
Boeing denied the US Airways allegations and said the information
was made available to the Federal Aviation Administration when the
airplane was being certified in 1984 for commercial operations.
The documents were part of a petition for punitive damages filed
by attorneys representing families of two of the 132 passengers and
crew who died when the 737 ...