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Ethiopian Air Crash
The first civil trial over a Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia more than six years ago opened Wednesday before a federal court jury that was asked to decide how much the American aerospace company must pay to the family of one of the 157 victims. The eight-person jury in Chicago, where Boeing used to have its headquarters, had been expected to set financial compensation amounts for the families of two women who were among the people who died when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plunged to the ground in March 2019. But moments before jurors arrived in the courtroom for opening statements, US District Judge Jorge Luis Alonso was notified that one of the cases had been settled out of court. We are grateful, Fredrick Musau Ndivo, the father of Mercy Ndivo, a 28-year-old mother originally from Kenya, told the judge after his family reached a settlement with Boeing. We wish you the best and wish the legal system of America to hold up the rights and justice for the people for all walks of ...
Police have formed more than a dozen teams comprising 100 personnel to look into various aspects of the wide-range investigation into the Porsche car crash case allegedly involving a minor driver, an officer said on Saturday. Police have registered three separate cases after the car allegedly driven by a minor boy fatally knocked down two IT professionals travelling on a bike in Kalyani Nagar area on May 19. The three cases include FIRs regarding the accident and the second one against the bar that served liquor to the juvenile. Police have booked the boy's father, a builder, for allowing him to drive the car without a valid license. A third case is about the wrongful confinement and coercion of the family driver to take the blame for the accident. Among the boy's family members, police have so far arrested his father, grandfather, and his (juvenile's) mother after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with hers, Pune police chief Amitesh Kumar said on Saturday. Other .