An Ontario man has finalized a settlement with Boeing nearly seven years after he lost six family members in a plane crash.
This development comes just days after a wrongful death trial began for the family in Chicago regarding the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 incident from 2019.
The flight, which was en route to Kenya, went down shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing all 157 people aboard, including 18 Canadians.
In that tragic event, Manant Vaidya lost his father, Pannagesh Vaidya, aged 73; his mother, Hansini Vaidya, aged 67; his sister Kosha Vaidya, aged 37; his brother-in-law Prerit Dixit, aged 45; and two nieces Ashka Dixit, aged 14, and Anushka Dixit, aged 13. The teenage girls were students at schools in Peel region at the time.
The family lived in Canada and had been traveling to show the teenage girls where their mother was born and to visit friends of their grandparents’, as mentioned by Vaidya’s lawyers at Clifford Law Offices in a news release.
“Boeing accepted full responsibility for the senseless and preventable loss of these innocent lives, and this corporate giant has now been held accountable to this family, especially to this good man who lost his dear mom, dad and sister,” said Robert Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law.
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From left, Ashka Dixit , Prerit Dixit , Kosha Vaidya and Anushka Dixit died after a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , in 2019. (Pramesh Nandi/Facebook)
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed publicly.
A Boeing spokesperson stated via email on Wednesday that the company is “deeply sorry to all who lost loved ones” on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
They indicated that Boeing accepted legal responsibility for what happened and committed to “fully and fairly” compensating families affected by the tragedy.
“While we have resolved the vast majority of these claims through settlements , families are also entitled to pursue their claims through damages trials in court , and we respect their right to do so,” they added , mentioning that the company will continue addressing any outstanding claims.
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Vaidya and his family were unavailable for comment on Wednesday.
Vaidya told earlier that he couldn’t believe he had lost so many loved ones.
In 2019 , he traveled to Ethiopia to retrieve his relatives’ remains with plans for final rituals back home in India alongside extended family.
Paul Njoroge , another Canadian whose wife and three children perished in that tragic event , also reached a settlement with Boeing last July.
In 2021 , Chicago-based Boeing took responsibility for the Ethiopia crash as part of an agreement with victims’ families allowing them to pursue individual claims within U. S. courts instead of their home countries.
Investigators found that faulty sensor readings caused the crash by forcing the plane’s nose downward while leaving pilots unable to regain control. Following this incident , Max jets were grounded worldwide until Boeing redesigned key systems.
This year , Boeing struck an agreement with the U. S. Justice Department preventing criminal prosecution related to both crashes.
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Vaidya and his family were unavailable for comment on Wednesday.
Vaidya told earlier that he couldn’t believe he had lost so many loved ones.
In 2019 , he traveled to Ethiopia to retrieve his relatives’ remains with plans for final rituals back home in India alongside extended family.
Paul Njoroge , another Canadian whose wife and three children perished in that tragic event , also reached a settlement with Boeing last July.
In 2021 , Chicago-based Boeing took responsibility for the Ethiopia crash as part of an agreement with victims’ families allowing them to pursue individual claims within U. S. courts instead of their home countries.
Investigators found that faulty sensor readings caused the crash by forcing the plane’s nose downward while leaving pilots unable to regain control. Following this incident , Max jets were grounded worldwide until Boeing redesigned key systems.
This year , Boeing struck an agreement with the U. S. Justice Department preventing criminal prosecution related to both crashes.
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