A US federal jury has found a software company and a flight
computer manufacturer were partly responsible for an American
Airlines crash that killed 159 people.14 Jun 2000
The pilots of the flight from Miami to Colombia in December 1995 entered an incorrect code into the flight computer, causing the Boeing 757 to fly into a mountainside. Four people survived the crash.
The Airline company previously paid $300 million to the crash victims and their families. It brought legal action against Jeppensen Sanderson, a Colorado software company, and Honeywell Air Transport Systems, a computer manufacturer based in Phoenix to recover its costs.
The jury found the software company 17% to blame and the computer manufacturer 7% at fault. American Airlines was considered 75% at fault.
Damages have still to be determined.