Boeing (BA) reached confidential settlements in three lawsuits filed by families of passengers killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 disaster, the victims’ attorney said on Wednesday.
The settlements came as one case was set to begin trial in Chicago’s U.S. District Court, where a jury had already been selected. Specific terms of the agreements weren’t disclosed.
The 2019 crash near Addis Ababa occurred just five months after a similar tragedy involving a Lion Air 737 Max off the coast of Indonesia. Investigators later determined that a malfunctioning automated flight control system was a factor in both crashes, which together claimed 346 lives.
Boeing (BA) has now resolved over 90% of the civil lawsuits stemming from the two accidents, the company has previously stated. Those settlements, along with a deferred prosecution agreement and other payouts, have cost the manufacturer billions of dollars.
The three victims in the newly settled cases — Mercy Ngami Ndivo, Abdul Jalil Qaid Ghazi Hussein and Nasrudin Mohammed — had connections to Kenya. Their families were represented by attorney Robert Clifford of Chicago, who has served as lead counsel for the majority of plaintiffs in the Ethiopian Airlines litigation since 2019.
The twin disasters triggered a nearly two-year grounding of Boeing’s (BA) best-selling 737 Max aircraft and inflicted more than $20 billion in financial losses on the company.