“Four years later… this plane is still in the air and it is the bestseller of Boeing, this 747 MAX, while it is dangerous,” she said. The accident came barely five months after a similar tragedy in which a 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia, killing 189 people. Instead, Boeing recognized that two employees misled authorities during the certification of the 737 MAX. The airline manufacturer agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and compensation in exchange for accepting the secret deal, which later became public. Berthet and other families of victims are challenging the agreement in a federal court in Texas.

Source: Ethiopian News March 11, 2023 11:40 UTC