Subj : Ethiopean 737 MAX8 crash settlement
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From : Aviation HQ
Date : Thu Nov 13 2025 22:48:06

American aircraft manufacturer Boeing must pay $28.45 million (24.56 million Euro) in damages to the widower of a victim of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash. A Chicago jury made the ruling in the first civil lawsuit against Boeing over the two fatal crashes of 737 MAX 8 aircraft, which claimed a total of 346 lives in 2018 and 2019.
 
In March 2019, the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing 157 people from 35 countries. Families of 155 victims sued Boeing between April 2019 and March 2021. At the start of the trial, there were eleven other charges. Three other charges have since been settled out of court.
 
In the end, the jury only considered the case of the relatives of Shikha Garg, a woman from the Indian city of Delhi who was on the Ethiopian Airlines flight.

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