New York - US aviation giant Boeing has agreed on compensation
with most of the relatives of the victims of the Lion Air crash
involving a 737 Max jet in Indonesia in 2018.
Settlements have now been reached in more than 90 per cent of the
deaths, the company said Tuesday in a status report on a class action
suit being heard by a federal court in Chicago.
In total, complaints in connection with 171 of the 189 people who
died in the October 2018 crash have been completely or partially
settled.
Boeing did not disclose the amount of the compensation or other
details. When asked, a spokesman only said that the firm was happy
with the progress and believed that they would compensate the
families fairly.
On October 29, 2018 Lion Air was operating a flight from Jakarta when
the Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane plummeted into the sea minutes after
take-off, killing all 189 people on board.
Boeing found itself in crisis the following year when another crash
involving the same plane model occurred shortly after take-off from
Addis Ababa on March 10, prompting various airlines and regulators to
ground the 737 MAX series.
All 157 people on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight were killed.