2026年5月14日 / 美国东部时间上午7:58 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
芝加哥陪审团周三裁定，向一名在2019年波音737 MAX空难中遇难的24岁美国公民的家属支付4950万美元损害赔偿金。
这起诉讼由萨米亚·斯托莫的亲属提起，她在2019年3月的埃塞俄比亚航空公司空难中遇难，该事故共造成157人死亡。
根据法庭文件，陪审团经过约两小时的评议后认定“原告方遭受的损害赔偿总额为4950万美元”。
此次空难几乎所有相关民事诉讼都已通过庭外和解解决。但在斯托莫一案中，她的家人未能在周一开庭的庭审前与波音公司达成和解协议。
波音公司在一份声明中表示：“我们对狮航610号航班和埃塞俄比亚航空公司302号航班上所有失去亲人的家庭深表歉意。”
“尽管我们已通过和解解决了几乎所有此类索赔，但家属有权通过司法程序追究他们的诉求，我们尊重他们的这一权利。”
斯托莫当时正前往肯尼亚，准备就任健康促进国际组织的首份工作，该组织是一家公共卫生非政府组织，旨在增加非洲和亚洲的医疗服务可及性。
但飞机从亚的斯亚贝巴起飞后不久坠毁，机上所有人员全部遇难。
此次空难发生在约四个半月前印尼狮航空难之后，那次事故造成189人死亡。
两起事故涉事机型均为737 MAX 8。
事故发生后，波音公司被迫停飞所有737 MAX机型近两年，以安装强制要求的系统升级程序。
该公司曾面临与空难相关的刑事欺诈指控，但在波音同意支付逾11亿美元罚款，并额外向空难遇难者家属支付4.45亿美元赔偿金后，联邦检察官同意撤销该案。该和解协议还要求波音加强内部安全和质量管控措施。
该协议使波音得以避免因在两起空难发生前就737 MAX客机一事误导美国监管机构而面临的刑事起诉。
Jury awards $49.5 million to Boeing 737 MAX crash victim’s family
May 14, 2026 / 7:58 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
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.
The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash that claimed 157 lives.
The jury deliberated approximately two hours, then found that “the total amount of damages suffered by Plaintiff is $49.5 million,” according to court documents.
Nearly all of the civil lawsuits around the crash have been settled out of court. In Stumo’s case, however, her family had been unable to reach an agreement with Boeing ahead of the trial, which began on Monday.
“We are deeply sorry to all who lost loved ones on Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302,” Boeing said in a statement.
“While we have resolved nearly all of these claims through settlements, families are entitled to pursue their claims through the court process, and we respect their right to do so.”
Stumo was killed while en route to Kenya for her first assignment with ThinkWell, a public health non-governmental organization that aimed to increase access to health care in Africa and Asia.
But the plane went down shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing everyone aboard.
Rescuers work at the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. Getty Images
That crash followed a Lion Air crash about four and a half months earlier in Indonesia that killed 189 people.
The same Boeing model was involved in both — the 737 Max 8.
After those incidents, Boeing was forced to ground all of its 737 Max planes for nearly two years to install required system upgrades.
The company had faced a criminal fraud charge connected to the crashes, but federal prosecutors agreed to drop the case after Boeing agreed to pay more than $1.1 billion in fines, and an additional $445 million in compensation for the crash victims’ families. The deal also required Boeing to strengthen internal safety and quality measures.
The deal allowed Boeing to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before the two crashes.
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