Updated 15 May, 2026 23:00
Judicial investigators working on the site of the Ethiopian Airlines 302 flight crash on 12 March 2019 in Bishoft, Ethiopia. © Jemal Countess / Getty Images
The Chicago national Jury ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million to the household of a female who died in the plane crash of Ethiopian Airlines – the frail model 737 MAX. The device crashed shortly after taking off with Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 passengers and crew members on board.
A fewer months earlier another Boeing 737 MAX, operated by Lion Air lines, crashed in Indonesia;
All 189 people on board were killed.
These 2 disasters led to a 20-month global grounding of aircraft of this type.
Boeing later admitted that these disasters were caused by a structural flaw in the flight control system.
As household lawyers reported, on Wednesday, the jury awarded Samya Stumo's loved ones $21 million for pain and emotional suffering, $16.5 million for failure of company, and $12 million for mourning.
Although Boeing has recognised its responsibility, Stumo household lawyers intend to request the appeal court to reinstate punitive damages claims which were dismissed during the trial.
Last November, the jury ordered Boeing to pay $28.45 million to the Shikhy Garg household – another 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster victim.
The company faced tens more civilian lawsuits;
Most of them were settled through confidential pre-trial settlements, covering a full of billions of dollars in damages.
In 2021, Boeing concluded a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the national authorities and agreed to pay $2.5 billion to avoid prosecution – after admitting to mislead the national Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding the flaws of the flight control strategy in the 737 MAX model.
In 2024, the Department of Justice concluded that the company had violated the terms of this settlement.
Nevertheless, for Donald Trump's presidency, the Department resigned from demanding that Boeing plead guilty as part of a conspiracy charge to commit fraud.
Last November, a national justice in Texas approved the Justice Department's decision to waive a criminal case against this air producer, who is at the same time 1 of the main suppliers of defence equipment for the US Army. The appeal court upheld the conviction in March that year.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/640050-boeing-ordered-pay-compensation-family-max-crash-victim/
