Honda announces new death by faulty airbag

Honda Announces New Death By Faulty Airbag

The Japanese carmaker Honda, has declared that because of a defective airbag, a young malasia girl has died. The responsible of Honda has said: "An airbag exploded abnormally and a woman died".In the United States there have been four deaths from the same cause, two of which were confirmed by Takata and Honda.

Meanwhile the Japanese company denied on Thursday allegations that secret tests conducted on the reliability of its airbags and then hid the results.
"Our company did not conduct these tests in 2004 and in no way hide the results," denying a report in the New York Times.

Honda, the largest customer of Takata, had to call revision million vehicles because of these airbags manufactured in 2000 cars that can explode violently and projecting fragments of metal and plastic against passengers. Takata said the problem could be related to the climate because the substance used to inflate the airbag, ammonium nitrate, it can be impaired if there is high humidity.

The press has meanwhile reported problems in security controls, particularly in Monclova Mexican factory.
The US Agency for Road Safety (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into the case and try to establish the liability of the two companies, which are suspected of hiding a number of incidents over the years.
The United States has also launched complaints and two senators have called for a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.

According to analysts,  It have been called to review a total of 16 million of vehicles with  this problem, half of them in the United States,  from eleven different brands, including Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Chrysler, Mazda, Ford, General Motors and Mitsubishi Motors.