Relatives of passengers killed in the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 have recently filed nearly two dozen wrongful death lawsuits in Florida against the aircraft maker Airbus.

The grievances claim that the A330 crashed because of several flaws in the plane and its components that were manufactured in the US. Podhurst Orseck, a Miami-based law firm, has filed a total of 23 wrongful death complaints on behalf of the passengers’ relatives and is expecting to add 10 more claims in the following few weeks.

However, Airbus – a European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company division – called the claims unjustifiable. Clay McConnell, a spokesman of Airbus, said that the company does not believe that the complaints are well supported. He said that Airbus will be making action to dismiss the case.

The lawsuits were filed in a US court by the relatives of Flight 447 passengers. The aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last June 1, 2009, just over three hours after its take off from Rio de Janeiro Airport. En route to Paris, the aircraft went down 680 miles from Brazil, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board.

France’s aviation investigation body, BEA, is handling the investigation of the crash. BEA has not yet determined the cause of the crash and has recently conducted a search to find for the missing flight data recorders that are believed to be 13,000ft below the Atlantic Ocean.