“Boeing was negligent, Boeing’s aircraft was unsafe, Boeing caused this crash and these deaths,” said Shanin Specter, lawyer for the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old American woman killed in the accident.

“This crash was preventable, this crash was senseless.”

Earlier in the day, Specter had spoken at length about the life of an “extraordinarily gifted and extraordinarily accomplished” young woman who taught herself to read at age three, graduated from high school at 16, and studied at the University of Massachusetts before earning a full scholarship to the University of Copenhagen.