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The husband of
a Nigerian woman who died in the crash of a Nigerian airliner that killed 153
people has filed a lawsuit in the US blaming those who designed and
manufactured the plane for the accident, AP reported on Thursday.
Attorney Gary Robb filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal
court in Chicago for David Chukwunonso Allison. The lawsuit says Allison’s
wife, Joy Chiedozie Allison, was on the Dana Air MD-83 that crashed in Nigeria
on Sunday.
The suit names Chicago-based Boeing Co., which bought the
McDonnell-Douglas manufacturer of the plane. It also names Connecticut-based
engine-maker Pratt & Whitney.
Robb says reports of engine failure point the finger of
blame at the companies.
Meanwhile, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian
Universities, an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday in Abuja
described Nigeria as “a dumping ground for deficient aircraft.”
To bring sanity into the nation’s aviation sector, SSANU
suggested the merger and acquisition of airlines.
The President of the union, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, in a statement, said the
policy was the only way the aviation industry could bounce back to reckoning