Boeing settles to avoid civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crash

[NEW YORK]  Boeing has reached a last-minute settlement to avoid a civil trial that was due to start on Monday over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX plane, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said.

The Chicago trial was to feature two plaintiffs who lost family members in the calamity, but both cases were settled on Sunday evening, the Clifford law firm told AFP.

The Boeing plane crashed on March 10, 2019, just six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on its way to Kenya, killing…