Chicago jury awards US$29 million to family of UN engineer killed in Boeing 737 MAX crash
A CHICAGO jury has awarded US$29 million (RM118.5 million) in damages to the family of an Irish-born United Nations worker who was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash in 2019, a US court spokesman said yesterday. The civil lawsuit w...
A Chicago jury recently awarded US$29 million to the family of Naoise Connolly Ryan, the widow of Michael Ryan, an Irish-born United Nations engineer who perished in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash. The lawsuit, filed against Boeing, was filed on behalf of Ryan, who was 39 years old at the time of the crash. Ryan had previously worked on the Ebola crisis in Liberia and with Rohingya refugees.
This verdict is one of the final civil cases against Boeing related to the two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, which resulted in 346 deaths. Most of the lawsuits have been settled out of court under confidential terms. Boeing has apologized for the crashes and acknowledged the role of its Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software in both accidents.
The worldwide grounding of the 737 MAX followed the two incidents and led to intense scrutiny of Boeing's aircraft design, certification, and safety practices.
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