Boeing accepts sole responsibility for 737 MAX crashes, wins agreement that avoids punitive damages

Boeing’s lawyers filed a joint court motion Wednesday with the lawyers for the families of the 157 people who died in the 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia, accepting sole liability for the fatal accident and laying out a process to settle almost all the claims. “The defendant, Boeing, has admitted that it produced an airplane that had an unsafe condition that was a proximate cause of Plaintiff’s compensatory damages caused by the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accident,” the filing states. Boeing explicitly agreed that the pilots were not at fault. It also exonerated two MAX suppliers: the company tha…

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