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RUSSIA: AIRLINE GOES AFTER U.S. COMPANY.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, November, 2002

Bashkir Airlines has filed suit against the U.S. company Honeywell in connection with a 1 July air disaster in which 71 people -- most of them children -- were killed, regions.ru reported on 5 November. Honeywell produces the automatic warning system that was aboard the Bashkir Airlines Tu-154 that collided in midair with a Boeing 757 cargo jet over southwest Germany.

No details about the suit were released. On 3 November, the airline filed a $20 million suit against the Swiss government, which owns and operates the air-traffic-control system that was controlling the two planes at the time of the collision. According to regions.ru, the airline has also said it intends to file a $15 million suit against the manufacturer of the Skyguide air-traffic-control system....

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