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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Rohrlich

Army widow sues Boeing for husband’s death in ‘uncrashworthy’ Apache helicopter disaster

The widow of a U.S. Army aviator who died when his AH-64 Apache attack helicopter crashed on a training mission claims her husband would still be alive if Boeing had simply been honest about the chopper’s purported “‘enhanced’ and ‘unmatched’ survivability features.”

In a gut-wrenching product liability lawsuit obtained by The Independent, Kiara Sotelo Wayment accuses Boeing of overselling the Apache to the military as perfectly safe, when in fact it “lack[s] adequate crashworthiness.”

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