Clodagh Finn: Cork widow's four-year battle to get justice over Boeing 737 Max crash

Airline guilty of ‘deadliest corporate crime in US history’ yet still evades legal sanctions, writes Clodagh Finn

Naoise Connolly-Ryan at home in Cork city. On the fourth anniversary of the death of her husband, who was deputy chief engineer at the UN’s World Food Programme, she is still no closer to getting justice. Picture: Larry Cummins

Naoise Connolly-Ryan will ask for at least six minutes of US President Joe Biden’s time when he visits Ireland next month.

She hopes for more, of course, but six minutes is a minimum, as it represents the amount of time Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was airborne.  The defective Boeing 737 Max carrying her husband Mick Ryan and 156 others crashed in those short minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa four years ago today, killing everyone on board.