Attacks on 11 September 2001 Administrator of the World Trade Center sue airlines

Years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September the time the airlines are faced with billions of owner complaints of the then destroyed New York's World Trade Center. A judge allowed the action and dismissed the appeals by American Airlines and United Continental. It's about more than 2.8 billion dollars (2.25 billion euros). The World Trade Center Properties LLC accuses American and United - the inszwischen Continental fused - claim to have made possible by the negligence attacks with almost 3,000 deaths and billions of damage. They had by poor security controls allowed the 19 Islamic terrorists on board. The lawsuit was filed four years ago and since then dozens of lawyers employed.

Insurance payments do not count

Originally, the property managers would want to sue the airlines even at $ 8.4 billion. The judge reduced the amount but on a third.This is the sum that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had the owner of the building and the real estate company agreed only weeks before the attacks as the price for 99 years lease. However, Judge Alvin Hellerstein concluded not with the reasoning of the airlines that the owners of the building had already been compensated by insurance and therefore there can be no longer eligible. The operators of the destroyed building complex had several, including German insurance already received compensation of nearly $ 4.1 billion. On 11 September 2001 Al-Qaeda members who had been kidnapped four aircraft, which they let one fall into the Pentagon in Washington. Another fell in the battle of the passengers from the kidnappers. The first two hijacked aircraft - American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 - were driven into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and brought it crashing down. Nearly 3,000 people died in the rubble, which made all of Manhattan to the crisis area.