A federal jury on Wednesday ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million over the death of an American on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, resolving one of the last lawsuits from a pair of fatal crashes that killed 346 people.
The Chicago jury awarded the family of 24-year-old Samya Stumo $16.5 million for their loss of companionship, $12 million for their grief, and $21 million for her experience on the plane. Because Boeing had already acknowledged responsibility for the crash, the trial focused solely on the scale of compensatory relief rather than on liability.
Stumo was an American aid worker from Massachusetts who died when the Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet crashed six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia en route to Kenya….