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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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