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The judge, though, dismissed some claims that the defendants' platforms were defectively designed.

The company has denied the plug was defectively or negligently designed or that the plugs caused injuries, and said in a statement that it will “vigorously defend ourselves against such allegations.”

In a reply to Mr. Engel earlier this week the State Department said he was “defectively premature” in his demands because he hadn’t tried to work out an accommodation with the Trump administration.

Austin Bartlett, a Chicago attorney representing the families of 60 of the crash victims, said the report “lends credibility to the plaintiffs’ theory of the case that this was fundamentally a defectively designed aircraft.”

The lawsuits assert that Boeing defectively designed the automated flight control system.