Boeing’s Quiet Settlement: Avoiding Accountability for the Ethiopian 737 Max Tragedy

On the eve of what should have been a moment of reckoning, Boeing reached a confidential settlement with Paul Njoroge, whose wife and three young children perished in the tragic 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash. This deal prevents a jury trial in Chicago that could have forced Boeing to confront its role in one of aviation's darkest chapters. Why Has Justice Been So Elusive After Such a Devastating Loss? The catastrophic failure that claimed all 157 souls aboard the flight exposed systemic flaws in Boeing’s now-infamous 737 Max jets—flaws linked to faulty sensor data and flawed automation systems that...