The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that Boeing reached a settlement Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to the devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets.
An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe says the jury trial at Chicago's Federal Court had been set to start Monday to determine damages for Paul Njoroge of Canada. His family was heading to their native Kenya in March, 2019, aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 when it malfunctioned and plummeted to the ground. The wreck killed all 157 people on board.
Mr. Njoroge, 41, had planned to testify about how the crash affected his life. He has been unable to return to his family home in Toronto because the memories are too painful. He has not been able to find a job, and he has weathered criticism from relatives for not travelling alongside his wife and children.
"He's got complicated grief and sorrow and his own emotional stress," said Mr. Njoroge's attorney, Robert Clifford.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed publicly.
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