Following the two crashes involving Boeing 737 Max planes in
Indonesia and Ethiopia, the Aerospace giants has offered $100m (N36bn) to help
families of those affected.
Recall that two Nigerians, Ambassador Abiodun Bashua and
Professor Pius Adesanmi, died in the Ethiopian airlines crash which killed all
157 people aboard, five months after an identical Boeing aircraft owned by the
Indonesian carrier Lion Air, crashed into the sea off Jakarta in October 2018.
Boeing in its statement on Wednesday, said the money will go
toward "education, hardship and living expenses for impacted families,
community programs and economic development in impacted communities," and
will be committed over multiple years. It is also said to be independent of
lawsuits filed in the wake of the disasters, which killed 346 people
It had been reported that
Boeing faces at least 80 lawsuits on behalf of victims of the accidents.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose grand-niece was among those who died, had
also lobbied to permanently remove the plane from service.
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