The crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX planes in 2018 and 2019 in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed more than 300 people, have now reached the courts. Several lawsuits filed by the victims' families are currently pending. Now, the U.S. aircraft manufacturer has reached an out-of-court settlement with one plaintiff—just days before the trial was set to begin.
This was announced on Friday by the lawyer representing a Canadian man whose wife, three children, and mother-in-law died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March 2019. The trial had been scheduled to start on Monday in Chicago and would have been the first case against the American aircraft manufacturer. Next Trial Scheduled for November Another trial is scheduled to begin on November 3 on behalf of the families of six additional victims.
The terms of the recent settlement have not been disclosed. Boeing declined to comment on the matter. A total of 346 people died in the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, leading to a 20-month grounding of the aircraft worldwide.
