French police officers look over a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. The wing was later found to be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that went missing March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. (Photo: Lucas Marie/AP Photo)

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.

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