'They knew this plane was defective': Wife wants Boeing charged with manslaughter

'They knew this plane was defective': Wife wants Boeing charged with manslaughter

Rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Boeing should be charged with manslaughter rather than just fined, according to Naoise Ryan, the widow of UN worker Mick Ryan who died in a plane crash in 2019. 

She was speaking yesterday as the aircraft-manufacturing giant was fined $2.5bn (€2bn) for misleading regulators about the safety of its 737 Max planes.

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