US EditionBoeing May Face Its First Civil Trial Seeking Damages for Deadly Ethiopia Crash
The trial focuses on determining monetary damages for families of 157 victims after Boeing accepted responsibility for the 2019 crash caused by faulty flight-control software.
- The trial stems from the March 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board.
- Family members of 155 victims filed lawsuits against Boeing between April 2019 and March 2021, alleging wrongful death and negligence.
- The principal plaintiffs in this week's trial are Shikha Garg, 36, of New Delhi, and Mercy Ndivo, 28, of Kenya.
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More than six years after a Boeing 737 Max plane crashed in Ethiopia, everything seems ready for the start of the first civil trial stemming from the disaster that killed all 157 people on board the plane.
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Boeing may face its first civil trial seeking damages for deadly Ethiopia crash
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Trial opens in first US civil case on 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash
NEW YORK, Nov 4 — Relatives of victims in the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 MAX plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines headed to court yesterday for the first civil trial relating to the 2019 calamity.The US aviation giant had come close to facing a jury on previous occasions in US District Judge Jorge Alonso’s Chicago courtroom, where the cases have been consolidated.On four prior occasions, attorneys reached last-minute settlements that averted a …
The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight, which occurred shortly after the take-off of the Addis Ababa aircraft in March 2019, resulted in 157 deaths.
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