US trial opens on UN worker killed in Boeing 737 MAX crash

Proceedings opened Monday in the latest trial over the fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, with relatives of an Irish-born United Nations employee looking to hold the US plane manufacturer accountable.US trial opens on UN worker killed in Boeing 737 MAX crashMichael "Mick" Ryan, an engineer with the UN World Food Programme who had worked during the Ebola crisis in Liberia and with Rohingya refugees, died in the ill-fated March 2019 crash on Ethiopian Airlines.A US court will hear claims from Ryan's survivors in order to determine damages, in one of the final civil claims stemming from two MAX calamities in 2018 and 2019 that together claimed 346 livesThe 737 MAX, which had been delivered to Ethiopian Airlines months earlier, crashed moments after departing Addis Ababa for Kenya."He was a humanit