A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the family members of passengers killed on a Boeing 737 Max plane in Ethiopia can seek damages for the “pre-impact emotional distress” their loved ones faced in 2019.
Boeing had argued earlier this year that evidence presented by lawyers about the pain and suffering of victims would have been speculative. U.S. District Court Judge Jorge AlonsoThe decision was the latest in a multiyear legal fight between families of the dead and the airplane manufacturer. Relatives of many of the 346 people killed on Max planes in Ethiopia — and Indonesia the year before — have settled with the company, but a handful of cases are headed for trial in Illinois on June 20.
“Based on even a bare-bones version of that evidence, jurors could plainly draw a reasonable inference … that the passengers experienced emotional distress as the aircraft rose and fell, rose again, then plunged,” Alonso wrote in his ruling.A lawyer for the families, Robert A.
Boeing on Wednesday reiterated that the company is “deeply sorry to all who lost loved ones” on the two flights.
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