Boeing asks the court to junk the 737 Max lawsuit filed by investors

Boeing reportedly asked the court in Delaware to dismiss the lawsuit filed by shareholders concerning the 737 Max planes. The investors sued Boeing over the safety of the said jet model after the series of deadly crashes happened consecutively.

The complaints from the investors

The investors said that the board at Boeing Co. engaged in a “robust and well-established” lapse in the plane’s development. As per Reuters, the complainants and New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in February that the plane manufacturer’s board violated its fiduciary duties and acted with gross negligence as it failed to oversee the safety of the company’s 737 MAX planes that have been involved in an alarming number of crashes.

They also accused the board of not developing tools for evaluating and monitoring the aircrafts’ safety following the 737 MAX crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that happened within just five months. 346 people died in the separate incidents and led to the worldwide grounding of the plane model.

The shareholders filed the case in Delaware Chancery Court to hold Boeing’s board accountable for the flight accidents involving the 737 MAX jets. This fleet of planes has been grounded for nearly two years, and it was just recently when some airlines started flying it again for commercial flights.

The motion to junk the lawsuit

Now, the case is still ongoing in court, and Boeing just filed a motion for its dismissal. This appeal to the Delaware court was made public on Monday, March 29.

In this request, Boeing said the plaintiffs disregarded the strong systems that they claimed had long been in place to keep the board informed about any risk problems with the aircraft. It was added that the company held management meetings at the board to assess the risks and there is also an audit group in the team to evaluate and receive complaints and reports on employee conducts.

“Boeing’s Directors maintained this high scrutiny, moreover, during a period in which commercial aircraft, and Boeing’s in particular, achieved ever higher levels of safety,” Boeing stated in the motion. “This is a trend that cannot be squared with Plaintiffs’ simplistic narrative about a ‘safety-engineering culture’ that had been ‘intentionally dismantled.’”

Meanwhile, Boeing did not comment further about its request to dismiss the case. On the other hand, the lawyer of the plaintiffs refused to comment on Boeing’s move.