A US federal court in Chicago on Monday began hearing a second damages suit against Boeing over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max plane, as a Canadian plaintiff sought compensation for the loss of multiple family members in the tragedy.The case has been filed by Manant Vaidya, whose sister Kosha Vaidya and parents Pannagesh and Hansini Vaidya were among the 157 people killed when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in March 2019. According to the AP report, Vaidya also lost his brother-in-law and two young nieces in the incident.Jury selection in the case is expected to begin on Monday, according to court proceedings, with opening statements expected on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday.“It is hard to believe that my entire family was wiped out in such a horrific way in one quick event,” Vaidya said in a statement published on the website of his lawyers at the Clifford Law Firm. “I still cry and so does my wife Hiral when we think of the horror of the last moments of our loved ones’ lives.”The Vaidya family, who lived in Canada, were traveling to Kosha Vaidya’s homeland of Kenya at the time of the accident.Relatives of Vaidya’s brother-in-law and nieces had filed a separate lawsuit against Boeing, which was settled out of court in July 2025.The Ethiopian Airlines crash follows a similar deadly crash involving a Lion Air 737 Max plane in Indonesia in October 2018. The two crashes killed a total of 346 people and led to the grounding of the 737 Max fleet worldwide. The investigation linked both incidents to the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a flight-stabilization software.Boeing has accepted responsibility for the accidents and apologized to the victims’ families.A company spokesperson said, “Boeing is deeply sorry for the families’ loss.” He said the company is committed to providing “full and appropriate compensation” to the victims and “accepts legal responsibility for the accidents.”The spokesperson said, “While we have resolved the majority of these claims through settlements, families are also entitled to pursue their claims through a damages lawsuit in court, and we respect their right to do so.”The lawsuit comes weeks after a US jury in the same Chicago courthouse ordered Boeing to pay $28.45 million in compensation to the family of an Indian victim of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash.