Boeing (BA) reached tentative settlement agreements with a Canadian man who lost six relatives in the 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 shortly after takeoff.
The agreements were reached late Tuesday after a jury had already been selected for a combined trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
The lawsuits focused on the deaths of three members of Manant Vaidya’s family: his parents, Pannagesh and Hansini Vaidya, and his sister, Kosha Vaidya. Kosha’s husband, Preritkumar Dixit, and their two children, Ashka and Anushka Dixit, were also killed in the crash. Boeing (BA) resolved claims related to those three victims in 2025. All six family members lived in Canada, according to Clifford Law Firm, which represents Vaidya.
The Ethiopian Airlines disaster occurred five months after Lion Air Flight 610 plunged into the Java Sea. Investigators found that an automated flight control system played a role in both accidents, which together claimed 346 lives.
Boeing (BA) previously said it has settled more than 90% of the civil lawsuits tied to the two crashes, paying billions of dollars through legal settlements, a deferred prosecution agreement and other compensation. The accidents led to a 20-month grounding of the 737 Max and cost the company more than $20 billion.
“We are deeply sorry to all who lost loved ones on Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302,” a Boeing spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters on Wednesday. “We made an upfront commitment to fully and fairly compensate the families of those who were lost and have accepted legal responsibility for the accidents in these proceedings.”