Thirty-two Kenyan families who lost relatives in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 are set to receive a combined $87.3 million from a Boeing 737 MAX crash-victim compensation fund, according to US legal records and the law firm representing the families.
Ribbeck Law Chartered said Boeing would begin releasing the final payments following the completion of legal proceedings in the United States.
The law firm said the 32 Kenyan families would collectively receive $87,343,352.60, an average of about $2.73 million per family.
Flight 302 was travelling from Addis Ababa to Nairobi when it crashed on March 10, 2019, about six minutes after takeoff. All 157 people on board died.
The crash came less than five months after Lion Air Flight 610, another Boeing 737 MAX 8, crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 people aboard.
