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Feb 22, 2007 1:35 am US/Pacific

Boeing To Pay $13.5M To Settle Soldiers' Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A Los Angeles judge has approved a $13.5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against Boeing and three other companies by two soldiers who were hurt in a 2003 Army helicopter crash in Iraq.

The product liability lawsuit claimed that a gearbox on an AH-64 Apache Longbow failed during a maintenance flight in Tikrit, causing the chopper to plunge 800 feet.

Former Chief Warrant Officer Juan Beltran of Los Angeles was left a quadriplegic, lost a finger and had severe head injuries. The crash shattered the spine of Chief Warrant Officer Ron Carnes, who now is stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

An attorney who represented both men said the companies did not acknowledge any wrongdoing in the settlement, and the lawsuit will be dismissed at a later date.

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