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Boeing settles 737 MAX civil cases planned for court hearings next week
April 9th 2025
Boeing has paid out to the families of two passengers killed when a 737 MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 fell out of the sky five years ago shortly after take-off. Read More » The trial was to begin next week. Terms of the settlement were confidential, lawyers for the families said. A 737 MAX 8, registration ET-AVJ, crashed after departing Addis Ababa bound for Nairobi. All 149 passengers and eight crew were killed. It was the second fatal accident involving the 737 MAX 8 in less than a year. Lion Air’s domestic flight JT610 plunged into the Java Sea after it departed Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on October 29, 2018. There were no survivors among the 181 passengers and eight crew onboard the LCC’s almost new narrow-body. The 737 MAX 8 global fleet was grounded for two years after the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash.
