H Irianto, the father of a passenger Rio Nanda Pratama - who was a doctor - used the services of the attorney's office, Colson Hicks Eidson, which has office in the State of Florida, in filing a lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, alleged that Boeing did not adequately warn Lion Air or its pilots of an unsafe design condition. Boeing is headquartered in Illinois.
"We have filed a lawsuit against the Boeing Company at Circuit Court, Cook County, Illinois, United States, headquarter of the Boeing company, on behalf of our client, parent of Dr Rio Nanda Pratama, who was a dead victim of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft that crashed into the sea," said Curtis Miner from the attorney's office at Colson Hicks Eidson in an official statement.
In the same statement, H Irianto stated that "all victims' families want to know the truth and causes of this tragedy, similar mistakes are avoided in the future, and those responsible are brought to justice".
Planned to get married
Dr. Pratama, of Indonesia, was flying home from a conference when the plane crashed. He was to be married this week, according to attorney Curtis Miner of the Florida-based law firm Colson Hicks Eidson, which is representing his father in the wrongful death lawsuit.
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High school sweethearts Rio Nanda Pratama and Intan Indah Syari were set to marry in Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung over the weekend.
Despite the tragic loss of her husband-to-be, Intan went through with a wedding photo shoot wearing her wedding gown to honor a request that had been intended as a joke by Rio just before he left for Jakarta.
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Indonesian investigators are due to publish a preliminary report on the crash later this month.
