Chicago (AP) – Boeing made an agreement with a Canadian person on Friday, whose wife and three children were killed Deadly 2019 Crash In Ethiopia, postponed the first test related to the disastrous incident, due to which A. Grounding worldwide Of Max Jets.
The federal court of Chicago was scheduled to start on Monday to determine the damage to the jury trial Paul Najorge Of Canada. His family was going to his original Kenya in the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 in March 2019, when it fell and fell to the ground. The debris killed all 157 people.
The 41 -year -old Najorge planned to testify how the accident affected his life. He has been unable to return to his family home in Toronto as memories are very painful. He is unable to find a job. And he has criticized relatives for not traveling with his wife and children.
“That complex grief and sorrow and their own emotional tension have become,” said Robert Clifford, a lawyer of Najoroge. “He is haunted by the bad dreams and the loss of his wife and children.”
The terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed.
Clifford stated that his client intended to search for “millions” in disadvantages from his wife and children, but refused to specify an amount publicly before the test.
Clifford said in a statement on Friday, “The Aviation team is working round-the-clock in preparing for the trial at Clifford Law Office, but the mediator was able to help in an agreement.”
Boeing officials did not immediately respond to the emails seeking comments.
The proceedings were not expected to join the technology Maximum version of Bestseling 737 of Boeing Airplane Constant trouble For the company since the Ethiopia accident and a year ago a year ago IndonesiaA joint 346 people, including passengers and crew members, died in those accidents.
In 2021, Chicago -based Boeing admitted a responsibility for the Ethiopia accident Allowed to deal with the families of the victims They have to carry forward personal claims in American courts instead of their domestic countries. Citizens from 35 countries were killed. Many families of the victims have already settled. The terms of those agreements were also not made public.
Jetliner going to Nairobi lost control immediately after the takeoff from the International Airport and the nose was put into the barren patch of the ground.
Investigators determined that Ethiopia and Indonesia accidents occurred due to a system that was dependent on a sensor that provided defective reading and pushed the aircraft’s nose down, unable to achieve pilots control. After the Ethiopia accident, Max Jets were placed on the ground worldwide until the company re -designed the system.
This year, Boeing Reached a deal To avoid criminal cases in both accidents with the US Department of Justice.
Among those killed, Njoroge’s wife, Caroline, and three young children, Ryan, age 6, Kelly, 4, and Ruby, at the age of 9, were the youngest to die on the aircraft. Najoroge also lost his mother -in -law, whose family is a different case.
Najorge, who met his wife in college in Nairobi, was living in Canada at the time of the accident. He later planned to join his family in Kenya.
He Testified Regarding repeated imagination before the Congress in 2019, how he had a family during the flight, which lasted for only six minutes. He has painted his wife while struggling to keep his baby in his lap, in which two other children are sitting nearby.
“I think of nights about the scary he must have been tolerated,” Najoroge said. “Six minutes will always be embedded in my mind. I was not there to help them. I could not save them.”
Sophia Taaren, Associated Press