US Trial Opens On UN Worker Killed In Boeing 737 MAX Crash
A US court has begun proceedings in a civil trial regarding the 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash that killed a UN humanitarian worker. The family of the victim is seeking accountability from Boeing and has rejected the company's voluntary settlement payments.
Why it matters
This trial represents one of the final civil legal challenges against Boeing following the 737 MAX disasters, highlighting ongoing issues of corporate accountability and victim compensation.
Proceedings opened Monday in the latest trial over the fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, with relatives of an Irish-born United Nations employee looking to hold the US plane manufacturer accountable.Michael "Mick" Ryan, an engineer with the UN World Food Programme who had worked during the Ebola crisis in Liberia and with Rohingya refugees, died in the ill-fated March 2019 crash on Ethiopian Airlines.A US court will hear claims from Ryan's survivors in order to determine damages, in one of the final civil claims stemming from two MAX calamities in 2018 and 2019 that together claimed 346 lives.The 737 MAX, which had been delivered to Ethiopian Airlines months earlier, crashed moments after departing Addis Ababa for Kenya."He was a humanitarian in every sense of the word," Ryan's widow Naoise Ryan said of her late husband, upon accepting an award from the Irish Red Cross in 2020. "From the time we met in…
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