PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge rejected Boeing’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit brought forth by passengers onboard Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, where a door plug blew off mid-flight over Portland last year. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport.
On Thursday, a Washington Superior Court judge rejected the attempt by Boeing to dismiss claims of “outrage” from the 38 passengers, as well as similar motions filed by Alaska Airlines and Spirit Aerospace.
In order to prove “outrage,” the lawyers will have to prove that Boeing’s actions were “intentional or reckless, and be so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency and be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civil community,” according to Stritmater Firm, which is representing the passengers…