Pius Adesanmi, the late
Nigerian-born Canadian professor, will be buried on Saturday in Canada.
Adesanmi was among the passengers
on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airline flight which crashed on its way to Nairobi,
Kenya, on a Sunday morning in March.
The aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8,
which carried 149 passengers and eight crew members, lost contact with air
traffic controllers six minutes after taking off.
It crashed near Bishoftu,
southeast of the Ethiopian capital, killing all passengers on board. The
literary critic was to attend a meeting in the East African nation.
The late professor will be laid
to rest at 12pm at Capital Funeral Home & Cemetry 3700, Prince Wales Drive,
Ottawa , Ontario, K2C 3H1, Canada.
A native of Isanlu, in Yagba east
local government area of Kogi state, Adesanmi was 47, and a professor of
English at Carleton University, Canada.
He is survived by his wife, two
daughters and his aged mother.
The deceased family had sued the
Boeing company over the fatal crash.
The suit was filed on June 4 on
behalf of the bereaved family at the US district court in Chicago where the
company is based.
The family sued Boeing for not
properly informing pilots on the dangers and risks around its new maneuvering
characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) software, which led to the crash of
the plane.
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