Two passengers on the Asiana Airlines Inc. flight that crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, causing the deaths of three passengers and injuring more than 180, have filed a lawsuit against the airline.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident. According to news reports, the plane's pilot, who was still in training, may have tried to abort the landing before the crash.

The lawsuit, Hector Machorro Jr. and Younga Jun Machorro, individually and as guardians ad litem and parents of minor Benjamin Hyo-Ik Machorro v. Asiana Airlines Inc., was filed in federal district court in San Francisco on Monday on behalf of Ms. Machorro and her minor son Benjamin, who were passengers on the plane, and Mr. Machorro, Ms. Machorro's husband and Benjamin's father.

The family is represented by attorney Michael P. Verna, of Bowles & Verna L.L.P., in Walnut Creek, Calif., who specializes in mass disaster aviation accident litigation.

The lawsuit says the plaintiffs “continue to suffer from extreme bodily and mental injuries and economic losses as a direct result” of the accident.

It charges “the Asiana crash occurred due to the gross negligence and recklessness of the Asiana flight crew on Flight 214, in woeful violation of numerous international and United States airline industry standards and established flight rules.”

“Among a(n) extensive litany of errors and omissions, the Flight 214 flight crew failed to observe the most fundamental procedures for a visual landing approach into (San Francisco airport), failed to appropriately monitor flight conditions on approach, and failed to communicate and react in the cockpit to those flight conditions.”

“Moreover, the flight crew of Flight 214 was inadequately trained and supervised by Asiana and failed to comply with the most rudimentary cockpit resource management protocols,” the lawsuit says. “Defendant's failures constituted a gross, wanton, and willful disregard for the rights and safety of all passengers aboard Flight 214 and needlessly caused injuries, damages and deaths to innocent passengers.”

The lawsuit seeks “no less” than $5 million in damages.

An Asiana spokesman could not be reached for comment.