COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Boeing lost a lawsuit against Denmark on Friday which related to the Danish government’s decision to buy Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II combat jets in preference to Boeing’s F/A 18 Super Hornets

Boeing had taken Denmark to court over a lack of access to documents used in the government’s decision to buy the Lockheed Martin jets.

“The court has found that the authorities’ decisions on refusal of access to the documents are legal and valid,” Copenhagen’s city court said in a summary of the verdict on its website on Friday.

Boeing said it was disappointed by the decision and would now review it and consider how to proceed.

After Denmark decided to buy 27 of Lockheed Martin’s new warplanes in 2016, Boeing complained that the evaluation process for the planes competing for the order had been “flawed” and demanded access to the documents in the case.

Reuters

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