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The eight-person jury is tasked with deciding how much Boeing should pay to the families of Mercy Ndivo, a 28-year-old mother originally from Kenya, and 36-year-old United Nations consultant Shikha Garg, who was from India.
The first civil trial related to the crash of a Boeing airplane in Ethiopia was set to proceed in the United States on Wednesday, six years after the disaster killed all 157 people on board.
Boeing has settled most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuits that families of the victims filed against the company, but a federal court jury was selected on Tuesday in two of the remaining cases.
Lawyers for the families and the US aircraft maker were scheduled to give their opening statements on Wednesday in a Chicago court.
The trial will not examine the company’s liability, as Boeing has already accepted responsibility for what happened to Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019, and for a similar 737 Max crash five months earlier off the Indonesian coast that killed 189 passengers and crew.
Instead, the eight-person jury is tasked with deciding how much Boeing should pay to the families of Mercy Ndivo, a 28-year-old mother originally from Kenya, and 36-year-old United Nations consultant Shikha Garg, who was from India.
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Both women were supposed to fly from Addis Ababa to Nairobi onboard a Boeing 737 Max jetliner on 10 March 2019, but the plane crashed just minutes after take-off. There were no survivors. An out-of-court settlement in one or the two cases currently on trial could still be reached at any point.
