Boeing in 2021 agreed to acknowledge liability for compensatory damages in lawsuits filed by families of the 157 people killed in the fatal Ethiopian 737 MAX crash.
Both airlines separately sued Boeing and argued they should have gotten compensation from Boeing as part of the plea deal, as other airlines did. Those suits in Seattle are pending.
In January 2021, the US charged Boeing with fraud. But the company was able to avoid going on trial, by agreeing to pay $2.5bn, including $500m to the families of those killed, and promising to tighten up its compliance procedures.
In wrongful death cases arising from an airplane accident, most states provide that the decedent's spouse and children, if any, are entitled to sue for damages.
In addition to the $2.5 billion settlement in 2021, Boeing's board of directors also agreed to pay the company $237.5 million in a settlement last April to resolve a lawsuit from shareholders—led by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and the Police Pension Association of Colorado—alleging Boeing's board of ...
Boeing set aside $500 million to compensate the families, but the bulk of the $2.5 billion in fines it agreed to pay went to its airline customers.
The pilot, Mark Forkner, was the only person to face criminal charges for flaws that resulted in two fatal crashes of one of Boeing's most important planes. A jury in Texas on Wednesday acquitted a former Boeing technical pilot, Mark A.
As a result, Boeing agreed to establish a $500 million fund to compensate the families of those who died, pay a fine of nearly $244 million and pay $1.77 billion in compensation to airlines.
A decision is reached regarding the plane crash case, with the hospital found guilty of negligence, and each of the survivors is awarded $15 million in compensation. Callie decides to throw a celebration dinner.
Judge rejects Boeing request to block pain and suffering damages for crash victims who died upon impact. A federal judge rejected arguments from attorneys for Boeing that it should not have to pay for the pain and suffering of 157 victims of a March 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash because they all died on impact.
Compensation in case of death or injury
According to Article 21 of the Montreal Convention, in case of death of passengers, the airline is liable to pay up to 1,13,100 Special Drawing Rights for each passenger. This works out to approximately $1,74,000 at current rates.
Under the terms of the January 2021 deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ, Boeing had to pay a criminal monetary penalty of $243.6 million and compensation payments to its 737 Max airline customers of $1.77 billion.
Well, when the passengers of the plane crash are found without clothes, it only indicates that the passenger cabin had broken during the crash allowing for a mid-air break-up. In such a situation the clothes get shredded by the slipstream.
They had run out of altitude. “Ah, here we go,” said Captain Thompson, uttering the last words captured on the cockpit voice recorder. Less than one second later, Alaska Airlines flight 261 slammed into the Pacific Ocean, obliterating the aircraft and instantly killing all 88 people on board.
The plane's upturned nose made it unstable, and it buffeted as it fell, Wise reports. For a passenger in the cabin, with no instruments to keep him or her oriented, the sensation would have been one of falling and buffeting, the plane rolling back and forth.
Of course, Boeing's best-selling and most produced aircraft has been the Boeing 737.
Boeing founded Aero Products Company shortly after he and U.S. Navy officer Conrad Westervelt developed a single-engine, two-seat seaplane, the B&W. Renamed Boeing Airplane Company in 1917, the enterprise built “flying boats” for the Navy during World War I, and in the 1920s…
Boeing's commercial airplane division is the company's largest contributor to revenue. It designs, manufactures, and sells commercial jet aircraft to airlines worldwide. Commercial airplanes accounted for about 50% of the company's revenue, during the years between 2017 and 2018.
Both the NTSB and France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis agreed with the Ethiopian agency's conclusion that the design of Boeing's new flight control software that repeatedly pushed the jet's nose down — the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS — was a major cause of the accident.
The FAA ultimately grounded the MAX on March 13, 2019 and lifted the flight prohibition order in November 2020 after Boeing made a series of software upgrades and training changes.
It's been widely reported that Boeing's decision to use a flight control software fix known as MCAS in its 737 MAX planes was one of the key factors that led to two crashes that killed 346 people.
The families said that the Justice Department not only left them in the dark about the settlement, but also misled them by falsely telling them that there was no criminal investigation into Boeing. Those actions, the families said, violated the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act.
Only one of those pilots was prosecuted and a jury acquitted him at trial last year. Boeing also agreed to pay $2.5 billion, including $1.7 billion in compensation to airlines that had purchased 737 Max planes but could not use them while the plane was grounded for 20 months after the second plane crashed.
A federal appeals court has rejected a class action lawsuit against Boeing and Southwest Airlines that accused the companies of putting 737 MAX passengers in harm's way and covering up known dangers to the flying public.