Judge allows September 11 lawsuits

A US judge has opened the door to scores of September 11 legal actions against the aviation industry by ruling that the hijacking and crashing of the planes was a ”foreseeable risk”.

US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said negligent security screening might have contributed to the deaths of 3,000 people in the attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon and the crashing of a hijacked plane in Pennsylvania.