The family of one of three American citizens on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 sued the airline on Tuesday in federal district court in Washington.
Phillip Wood was a passenger on Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. The airline has said that the plane suffered an as-yet-unspecified "accident." The Malaysian government said the 227 passengers and 12 crew members were presumed dead. A piece of the plane was discovered last summer on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Wood's estate — represented by Podhurst Orseck in Miami, with Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber in Washington filing the case as local counsel — sued Malaysia Airlines under the Montreal Convention, an international treaty that governs carrier liability for airline accidents.
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