A US lawyer filed suit against planemaker Airbus and many aerospace suppliers this week seeking unspecified compensation on behalf of survivors of eight of the 228 passengers who died when an Air France flight crashed.

 

The lawsuit said the plaintiffs, relatives of some of the dead from Air France Flight 447, have "suffered a loss of support" and other losses as a result of the deaths. The action was brought under the Illinois Wrongful Death Act and filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.