Muranga Senator Kang'ata has teamed up with a consortium of US lawyers to sue aircraft manufacturer Boeing over the deadly crash that killed 157, among them 32 Kenyans.
Irungu Kang’ata and Co Advocates (Kenya), Laban Opande, Attorneys (Texas, US) and Carlos Velasquez (Florida, US) yesterday announced that plans are at advanced stage to file the suit.
They are accusing Boeing of negligence and for manufacturing a faulty product and are seeking compensation on behalf of the affected families.
Principal counsel Opande explained that the lawyers will foot the costs under a contingency fee agreement.
“We want to take the burden of legal issues as the families take their emotional and spiritual whichever way they will take,” he said.
A contingent fee arrangement means a lawyer agrees to accept a fixed percentage (often one third) of the recovery, which is the amount finally paid to the client.
Preliminary reports of the crash revealed that a suspect anti-stall system was activated shortly before the plane nosedived into the ground, causing a massive crater.
The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) failed in a manner similar to the 2018 Lion Air crash in Indonesia.
