Coverage dated May 13, 2026

Jury awards $49.5 million to Boeing 737 MAX crash victim

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A jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million in damages Wednesday to the family of a 24-year-old American who perished in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash​.

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  1. CBS News

    Jury awards $49.5 million to Boeing 737 MAX crash victim (opens CBS News)

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    A jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million in damages Wednesday to the family of a 24-year-old American who perished in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash​.

  2. Delaware Public Media

    Jury orders Boeing to pay $49.5 million to family of 737 MAX crash victim (opens Delaware Public Media)

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    A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a young woman who was killed in the second of two Boeing 737 MAX crashes within months of each other in 2018 and 2019.

  3. MyNorthwest

    Jury awards $49.5M to the family of a woman killed in 2019 Boeing Max crash (opens MyNorthwest)

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    A federal jury has awarded $49.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia

  4. Digital Journal

    US jury awards $49.5 mn damages to Boeing 737 MAX victim's family (opens Digital Journal)

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    The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash which claimed a total of 157 lives.

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