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To: MythMan who wrote (9466)	2/14/2000 3:15:00 PM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

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To: MythMan who wrote (9466)	2/14/2000 3:17:00 PM
From: clochard	Respond to of 42523

Monday February 14, 2:57 pm Eastern Time Alaska Air crash spawns first U.S. lawsuit CHICAGO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - An attorney filed suit in federal court on Monday on behalf of the widow of one of 88 people who died in the crash of an Alaska Airlines (NYSE:ALK - news) jet into the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles on Jan. 31. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, believed to be the first lawsuit to emerge from the crash, charged the airline with negligence that culminated in the death of Allen Friedmann, 48, a marketing executive with the California Bankers Association. The suit, brought by attorney Robert Clifford, said the pilots bypassed nine viable landing sites in favor of ''trouble-shooting in the air'' after reporting problems with the MD-83 plane's horizontal stabilizer. Clifford represents Friedmann's widow, Julie Friedmann, who has three children. Other defendants named in the suit were plane manufacturers Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA - news) of Seattle and McDonnell Douglas of St. Louis, which is now owned by Boeing. Additional defendants may be named later, including firms involved in making the elevator trim and stabilizer that have been the focus of the initial investigation. Clifford represents three other families of victims of the crash, and is expected to file additional suits later this week.