Boeing faces civil trial over 737 MAX crash

NEW YORK, May 4: Boeing is scheduled to return to court Monday to face its latest lawsuit over a deadly 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia, brought by the family of a young American NGO worker.

Barring a last-minute settlement, the case will go before a federal court in Chicago, with jury selection expected Monday and Tuesday and opening statements Wednesday.

SamyaStumo was killed in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, when she was en route to Kenya for her first assignment with ThinkWell, a public health NGO that aimed to increase access to health care in Africa and Asia.

But the plane went down shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing everyone aboard. The Ethiopian crash followed a Lion Air crash about four and a half months earlier in Indonesia.    �"AFP