{"id":597,"date":"2026-05-16T02:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:44:19","slug":"boeing-ordered-to-pay-49-5-million-to-family-of-737-max-crash-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Boeing ordered to pay $49.5 million to family of 737 MAX crash victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A jury awarded compensation over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster linked to a software design flaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"79\">A federal jury in Chicago has ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million to the family of a woman who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash involving the ill-fated 737 MAX airliner. The aircraft went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board.<strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"7\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"1188\">Several months earlier, another Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia, killing all 189 people aboard. The two disasters prompted a 20-month worldwide grounding of the aircraft. Boeing later admitted that a design flaw in the flight control system was responsible for the crashes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1190\" data-end=\"1395\">On Wednesday, jurors awarded the family of Samya Stumo $21 million for pain and emotional suffering, $16.5 million for loss of companionship, and $12 million for grief, according to the family\u2019s attorneys.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.02\/thumbnail\/6984343685f54070af4d4964.jpg\" alt=\"File photo: An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner landing at London Heathrow Airport\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/india\/632015-uk-threatens-air-india-with\/\">UK threatens Air India with regulatory action over Boeing incident \u2013 Reuters<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1565\">While Boeing accepted liability, lawyers for the Stumo family intend to ask an appellate court to reinstate punitive damage claims that were dismissed during the trial.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1711\">Last November, a jury ordered Boeing to pay $28.45 million to the family of Shikha Garg, another victim of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1878\">The company faced dozens of additional civil lawsuits, most of which were settled through confidential pretrial agreements worth billions of dollars in compensation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1880\" data-end=\"2135\">In 2021, Boeing reached a deferred prosecution agreement with federal authorities and agreed to pay $2.5 billion to avoid prosecution after admitting it had deceived the Federal Aviation Administration regarding flaws in the 737 MAX flight-control system.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2364\">In 2024, the Department of Justice found the company in breach of the settlement terms. However, under US President Donald Trump, the department dropped its demand that Boeing plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2366\" data-end=\"2615\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Last November, a federal judge in Texas approved the DOJ\u2019s decision to dismiss the criminal case against the aerospace manufacturer, which is also a major defense contractor for the US military. An appeals court upheld the ruling in March this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jury awarded compensation over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster linked to a software design&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}