Boeing offers 737 MAX crash victims' families $213,000 each from assistance fund
ABCBoeing will pay the families of 346 people killed in two 737 MAX crashes $US144,500 each from a $US50 million financial assistance fund announced in July, the fund's administrators have said. Key points: The 737 MAX has been grounded since March after fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said the company continued to extend its "deepest sympathies" to the families and loved ones of victims of the twin crashes Nearly 100 lawsuits have been filed against Boeing by at least a dozen law firms The fund, overseen by Washington lawyers Ken Feinberg and Camille S Biros, will begin accepting claims from family members immediately. In a statement, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said the company continued to extend its "deepest sympathies" to the families and loved ones of victims of the twin crashes. Indonesian investigators found that design and oversight lapses played a key role in the October 2018 crash of Boeing Co's 737 MAX jet that killed all 189 people aboard.