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Boeing pledges Sh10 billion to help 737 MAX crash families

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner

Boeing Co said on Wednesday it would give $100 million (Sh10, 238,983,456) over multiple years to local governments and non-profit organizations to help families and communities affected by the deadly crashes of its 737 MAX planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The move appears to be a step toward repairing the image of the world’s largest planemaker, which has been severely dented by the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane in March just five months after a similar crash of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.

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