A jury awarded compensation over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster linked to a software design flaw A federal jury in Chicago has ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million to the family of a woman who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash involving the ill-fated 737 MAX airliner. The aircraft went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board. Several months earlier, another Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia,